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‘If the soul seeks God, much more does her Beloved seek her’ (St. John of the Cross).

We must always be attentive to the Lord and seek Him in everything. This is the language of love, and it is God Himself who invites us to do so: “Seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you!” (Mt 7:7). If we follow the inner invitation of our Father, our soul will have set out on the path prepared for her. “Our heart is restless until it rests in you”, exclaimed Saint Augustine, whose deep search for God we know from his Confessions.

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“How little is known the merciful goodness and love of your heart” (St. Teresa of Avila).

St Teresa expresses here what we also know from the Father’s message, as a kind of lament that this relationship of deep trust between God and His children has not yet been realised as He wants it to be.

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“God’s concern is mine.  Nothing that concerns Him is foreign to me.”  (St Bernard of Clairvaux).

These are the words of a soul aflame with love, who has already come very close to our Heavenly Father and whom He has filled with His love. The intimacy between St Bernard and our Father is palpable, and we recognise this profound relationship in another beautiful sentence in which he invites his brothers to draw near to the Father. In this loving invitation, which we will hear next, we see how he had made God’s cause his own, because we know very well that our Father longs ardently for all people to be close to Him, to know Him, to honour Him and to love Him. Then He will be able to give them all that He has in store for them.

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“Thou hast put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound” (Ps 4:7).

Earthly pleasures, though they may stimulate and even delight our senses, pass quickly and then have to be repeated. Spiritual pleasures, on the other hand, leave a deep impression on our soul and are capable of shaping it. If we seek earthly pleasures too intensely, we run the risk of becoming dependent on them and seeking spiritual joys less and less. Therefore, while we may enjoy “grain and wine”, we should do so only to the extent that they do not become too valuable to us and we do not lose sight of the true joys.

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“Calumny only harms those who take it to heart” (St. Francis de Sales).

One of the most terrible offences that we humans inflict on each other is slander. In other words, it is the very common vice of speaking ill of other people. If we look at it more closely, it is a kind of psychological homicide against the person in question. Unfortunately, it is not just something that happens from time to time. We have even witnessed a kind of ‘public execution’ of people through the media and, nowadays, through the Internet.

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‘In my love, I have taken possession of you. You are mine!’ (Inner Word).

We know a similar phrase in Sacred Scripture: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine” (Is 43:1). And St Paul exclaims: “Nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:39).

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“Never lose heart. God is with you and will never leave you” (Inner Word).

There is no doubt that we Christians are called to fight a battle, and it is coming to a head in an increasingly anti-Christian world, with its politics and mentality. But it is not only visible tribulations that we face. As St Paul tells us, our struggle is against “the principalities and powers” (Eph 6:12), that is, against the spirits of evil, the fallen angels, whom we must fight with the power of the Lord. To this battle are added various inner afflictions that come from our soul, as well as the experience of our own weakness and all kinds of limitations and trials.

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‘Never let yourself be confused and keep your heart anchored in me’ (inner word).

Often the attacks of the evil one want to lead us away from the right path. But as we know, God uses all his machinations to anchor us even more deeply in Himself.

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“I understand that someone suffers or is afflicted, but why worry if God is there?” (Venerable Anne de Guigné).

These words come from the mouth of a very young saint. It was Anne de Guigné herself who said: “Nothing is difficult if you love God”. Here we find a saintly simplicity that just assimilated the teachings of the Lord and allowed them to penetrate her soul. In this way they became a natural reality for Anne.

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‘My God, Most Holy Trinity, be my dwelling place and my refuge; the Father’s house I never want to leave’ (St. Elizabeth of the Most Holy Trinity).

A soul in love with God expresses in her letters what the Heavenly Father offers us again and again in the message to Mother Eugenia: the most intimate relationship of the soul with her Creator and Saviour. All the books in the world cannot fully describe this love. We need to read more in that book of which Saint Joan of Arc spoke: to listen attentively to the Heart of God and to know our Father as He is.

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