Living Flame of Love

March 25



 As soon as I start to pray, then I feel invaded by the heart as a flame of love alive, this flame is unmatched by any other name of this underworld. It is a delicate and sweet flame consumes and does not cause any suffering. It's so sweet and so delicious that the spirit such complacency and feel satisfied, but the way that does not stop wanting it, and, oh God, it's so wonderful to me that they may never come to understand, unless it in heaven.
This desire, far from depriving the soul of this fullness, is increasingly strengthened. The joy felt by the soul there in your heart, far from diminishing as a result of desire, is growing more and more, as it did in the desire to enjoy this vivid flame permanently, because this desire is not offset by the joy, but remains much more alive as a result of the same desire.
From this follow that are increasingly rare occasions when I can reason with the understanding and rejoice with the senses.
(March 26, 1914, Fr Benedict of San Marco in Lamis - Letters. I, p. 460)