viernes, 28 de febrero de 2014

Unfasten the ocean of your heart


February 28

Be cautious never to talk to other people , except for the director and his confessor , of those things that the good God will favor . Always address all your actions to the glory of God, just as the apostle wants : " Whether you eat , and drink , and whatever you do , do all to the glory of God." Are renewed this holy intention from time to time .
Examine the end of each action, and , if they find any imperfection not be troubled by it, but be ashamed and humble yourselves before God's goodness ; apologize Pray to the Lord and the preserve of such failure in the future.Renounce all vanity in his clothes, because the Lord allows these souls falls in those vanities.Women seeking the vanities of the dresses may never put on the life of Jesus Christ , and lose the ornaments of the soul as soon as you enter this idol in their hearts. Her dress is , as Paul wants , decent and modestly decorated , but without fur sewn , no gold, no pearls, precious garments without sounding wealth and luxury.

( August 2, 1913 , Father Agustín de San Marcos in Lamis - . Ep I, p 396. )

Both the confessor and spiritual director is the person that God has placed in the world that favors the humble, simple , passionate and pure state of your soul that is the pure temple of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. So my dear son, always apply unto my beloved daughter and increasingly in the desire to cultivate a deep and frequent confession. Confess sins not only everyday but those that embarrass you and why do not you confess and make you suffer so much. After frequent confession cheerfully offered to the Lord of his infinite Mercy and forgiveness and love that you said that your penance confessor has seen fit to impose . Turn frequently and swiftly to your spiritual director. Unfasten the ocean of your heart open to God that book, and he knows orient wise and prudent under the action of the Holy Spirit on the right path that will lead to happiness. Renounce everything that makes you sick in soul and body , and instead embraces all that by God's grace makes you grow human and holy . Amen .

jueves, 27 de febrero de 2014

Not allow the enemy


February 27

The virtues are like having a treasure , which , if you have not hidden from the eyes of the envious , I steal .
The devil is always watching , and he, the worst of all the envious , looking to snatch this treasure, which are the virtues , as soon as I discovered, and makes assaulting us with this powerful enemy who is vainglory.Our Lord , always attentive to our good, to preserve us from this great enemy , warns us in several places of the gospel. Do not tell us that if we prayed , we retire to our room , shut the door and pray one on one with God, that our prayer is not known by others ; ? What , when fasting , we wash face so that we discover our fast others in dirt and pale face ; ? that by giving alms, let not your right hand know what the left is doing ?

( August 2, 1913 , Father Agustín de San Marcos in Lamis - . Ep I, p 396. )

Thanks always and at all times the gifts that God has lavished you . Recognize that everything good comes from Him and what He has to deliver. It is therefore necessary to find that all the good that you have is a gift of God's generosity . It is also convenient , healthy and successful yourself before God and recognize the virtues with which He has crowned you . When you discover and recognize beam pawn in cultivating , care for and protect a rich booty. Not for apropiártelas not to bury , but that the enemy did not snatch your hand by envy or malice . At the same time you have to take good care not to gloat for the good that God is doing in you and through you, but humbly recognize that God has looked at you with mercy and love. The depth of the Christian life must be lived between God and you . At the time you exercise you truly love God above all things, and in the radical love of neighbor , it will signal a deeper relationship with God .

lunes, 24 de febrero de 2014

When we allow ourselves to be enlightened by the light


February 24

St. Chrysostom , speaking of the pride , says : " The more you do works, seeking to crush the pride , the more you stimulate the ". And what is the cause of this?
Let us say the same holy Doctor : "For everything bad comes from bad , only vainglory from good , and , therefore, is not extinguished with good but more inflated ."The devil, dear father, knows that a lustful , a thief , a miser , a sinner, have more reason to be ashamed and blush to boast that , and , therefore, is careful to tempt them that way , and they Save this battle. But not good saves , especially when striving to strive for perfection . All other vices which stand only are defeated and dominated by them, but the pride looks up precisely those people who fight and overcome . Is emboldened to assault their enemies , using the same victories they have achieved against her. It is an enemy that never stops , it is an enemy that enters battle in all our work and, if you are not vigilant , it makes us victims.Indeed , we, to escape the adulation of others, and prefer the hidden secrets to visible fasting , silence , speaking eloquently , be despised, to be taken into account ; contempt , honors . Oh, my God . Here again , the pride you will, as they say, stick your nose acometiéndonos with vain complacency.


( August 2, 1913 , Father Agustín de San Marcos in Lamis - . Ep I, p 396. )

Always and everywhere you need to discover the intention of all that word or deed do, as we run the danger of being deceived by the cunning of the enemy into thinking that everything we do is good and therefore putting atop our attitudes . How dangerous is not always accustomed to question and be able to evaluate our right intention . So as the Apostle of the Gentiles says , " let him who boasts boast in the Lord." Certainly all that belongs to us are our vices and sins , yet with all that, we realize that it is the Spirit of God that enables us to discover our sin and limitation. Of course when we put the light in front of a mirror is when we can see the stains , the dirt from imperfections . Similarly when we come face to God , when we let ourselves be enlightened by the light of the Holy Spirit , then all our imperfections not as a battlefield , but appear as a space for the grace of God to work in us, that cleanse us , we embellish, and we hermosee . So what we have to brag about? Everything is God's work and it's not us by his grace , by his merit and mercy. To Him be glory , praise and honor for ever and ever. Amen .

viernes, 21 de febrero de 2014

He will always know console and all ...


February 21

Meditate the fiat of Jesus in the garden ,how heavy would have to give blood sweat and sweat ! Also you pronounce this fiat , both prosperous and adverse things , and do not worry or break your head wondering how you pronounce it . It is known that in the difficult nature questions flees the cross, but no one can say that the soul is not subject to the will of God, when we see , despite the hard feelings against, put in practice .Want to have concrete evidence of how the will pronounce its fiat ? Virtue is known by its opposite. Posted by Lord on a test, it is difficult or easy , tell me, you feel driven to rebel against God ? Or better , say as an example the impossible: trying to rebel . O , tell me , do not you grau to simply hear these blasphemous phrases ? Well, between yes and no , there can not be , nothing in between .If your will flee the rebellion , rest assured it is subject , tacitly or explicitly , to the will of God, and therefore , she also pronounced her fiat in his own way .

( January 30, 1915 , to Raffaelina Cerase - . Ep II , p 321. )

The complete and utter abandonment to the will of God is a far deeper and truer the more painful process. It is easy to say " Yes " to the Lord in everything and in all circumstances. It is easy to say " Yes" to God and renounce the very "I " , ie selfishness. How much does it cost for a soul to pronounce the "Fiat " just as Jesus spoke . Just as I gave Mary! But when by God's grace and acting with full and absolute self-consciousness the person is entering a slowly emptying itself and is creating around himself and his life ambient increasingly absolute abandon until total abandonment. A neglect not to walk into the void , into the non-sense , to death, but the opposite . Abandonment leading to the loving arms of the Father. A drop that takes you to a complete and utter existence full of joy, grace , joy because you will find that your Savior is waiting to fill you all hope. Therefore come boldly pronounce this " Yes " Whatever your situation in which you find yourself , trust in God, in His Divine Providence and his holy will and always comfort you and He will know everything.

jueves, 20 de febrero de 2014

Do not throw away your sadness ...


February 20

Jesus, the man of sorrows , that all Christians would imitate him . However, Jesus also gave me this cup to me, and I accepted it , and here's why not deprive me of it . My poor suffering is useless , but Jesus is pleased him because she loved him so intensely on earth .
Therefore, in certain special days, in which he suffered more intensely on this earth , I feel the suffering even harder.Should not this just to humiliate bastarme and to seek to live hidden from the eyes of men, because I've been made ​​worthy to suffer with Jesus and like Jesus?Ah , my father , I feel my ingratitude to God's majesty is too great.

( February 1, 1913 , to Father Agustin de San Marco in Lamis - . Ep I, p 334. )
Pain and suffering are features in the life of the person that often we do not understand. However, the model of pain and suffering, we have in " The Man of Sorrows " Christ the Lord, our God and our Savior. It is true that He embraced suffering from the beginning of his life and wants all men and women of this world will not imitate a masochist, sickly and even delusional sense of suffering , but embracing everything that happens to us every day and we have to accept as the will of God. I mean, my dear children , understand me well , say you have to know how to suffer , not to look for suffering , except those souls that God himself intended for it , and which the Holy Spirit inspires them how to suffer and peace and strength to do so. Well my dear children, both embrace the pain and suffering that we cause but comes to visit or even to stay in our house, both the pain and suffering experienced chosen souls through penance submitting to his body , both have to be redemptive pain and suffering. This is where there is a hint of masochism, but do the divine will of God who has so loved men. When is the redeemer , savior and family and personal conversion , community or ecclesial sense , then it is a suffering that is worth living , embrace and offer. Remember it does not take away your sorrow , your pain, your suffering, but offer them to God along with all ers and sufferings of all men and women of the world coupled with his Son Jesus Christ for the salvation of humanity and conversion of sinners and see the profound value of your contribution .

martes, 11 de febrero de 2014

Correct your mistakes ...



February 11

Do we want to walk properly ? Earnestly dedicate ourselves to walk the path that is closest to us. Engrave well in mind what I 'll say : often we want to be good angels and being good men neglect . Our limitation has to accompany us to the grave , we can not achieve anything without land. Do not distract or relax because we are like little chicks, but without wings. In physical life , we die slowly , and this is a dear we ordinary law by providence , and , in the same way , we must die to our imperfections , also daily . Merry imperfections , we might exclaim , that make us know our great misery and exercising we humbly in contempt of ourselves, patience and diligence . But despite these imperfections, God observes the preparation of our heart , which is perfect .

( March 3, 1917 , Herminia Gargani - Ep III , 678. )

lunes, 10 de febrero de 2014

Torrente impossible to contain


February 10
It is now time to confess : we are miserable , as it's very good that we can practice . But God , in his goodness , pities us, reaches also indulge in this bit, and accepts the preparation of our hearts. But what this preparation of our hearts? According to God's word, God is infinitely greater than our heart, and it beats all the other realities when , apart from worrying about himself, places the service that should be offered to God, that is, when you accept the commitment to serve God , to love , to love our neighbor , to observe the mortification of the external and internal senses , and other good purposes.

During that time , our heart is prepared and has his works to an eminent degree of Christian perfection. All this , my dear daughter, is in no way proportionate to the greatness of God, who is infinitely larger than the universe , our abilities, our external actions. An intelligence consider this greatness of God, His goodness and immense dignity , you can not help but offer great preparations .This preparation will present a body mortified without rebellion attention to prayer without voluntary distractions a huge talking sweetness without bitterness , a sense of humility without vanity. Here , my dear , good preparations. It is true that some people do not see that would be necessary preparations much larger to serve God , but it is also necessary to find out who can perform them , for when we have to implement them, it is easy to stop , seeing us these perfections can not be be neither so high nor so absolute.You can mortify the flesh , though not entirely , because there will always be some rebellion. Our attention will often be interrupted by distractions. But above all this, do agree restless , troubled , worry and grieve ? No way .
March 3, 1917 , Herminia Gargani - Ep. III , p .
678 )

viernes, 7 de febrero de 2014

Humility is the projection ...


February 7

Aim , therefore , responded generously to [ the special love of God for you ] , making it worth it , that is , like him in the adorable perfections as indicated in the Scriptures and the Gospel , and you and you learned . But , my brother : this imitation to be given , continuous reflection and meditation on life is needed, reflection and meditation esteem born of their actions , and the esteem , the desire and commitment of imitation. All this is provided to us by our laws .
Let's stay constant in exact compliance therewith and be perfect .Mostly you have to insist on what is the basis of Christian holiness and the foundation of goodness : in virtue of which our Divine Master and our Seraphic Father we propose as models : I mean humility. More internal than external ; ; internal and external humility more vivid than shown ; deeper than visible.

( August 19, 1918 , Fray Gerardo Deliceto - . Ep IV , p 25. )

jueves, 6 de febrero de 2014

Whoever is thirsty come ...


February 6May the Lord , source of all life , not refuse this so fresh and so beautiful , that he, in the exuberance of his love to men, promised to those who thirst for it. I , my father, ardently desire this water is ask Jesus to the moans and sighs continuous . I also ask you not hide ; tell , father, and he knows that I have great need of this water alone can heal a wounded soul of love.Comfort this most tender husband of Song of Songs to a soul that thirsts for him, and to comfort himself with that kiss the sacred wife asked . Tell that to a soul that has never received the kiss , you can never sign a pact with him in these terms : "I 'm all for my beloved and my beloved is everything to me ."May the Lord who will not leave him alone has put all his trust ! Oh, not my hope that this never left disappointed, and I will always be faithful ...

( October 10, 1915 , Father Agustin de San Marco in Lamis - . Ep I, p 666. )