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Luke 17:1-6
"Faith is to believe without understanding, without seeing. God has blessed us with the gift of our intellect, and up to a point we understand many things about ourselves and the world around us. However, when you begin to move deeper into faith, something strange happens.
You have been walking in the sunshine of your intellect. God has helped you and encouraged you to use it. Then...God plunges you into the night. He says, 'Put your head in your heart and believe! For now there is no answer. I am the answer. You won't see me in the dark. You will have to follow me in faith, without knowing. Arise and believe!'
There is a tremendous secret in God's ways if we follow him across that dark night...There will be a moment...he will appear. He will just be there."
--from Magnificat, p. 116, by Catherine de Hueck Doherty.
"The soul, famished and athirst for God, seeks Him without respite, 'for being in darkness, it feels itself to be without Him and to be dying for love of Him' (John of the Cross, Dark Night II, 13, 8) Love makes the soul impatient to find the Lord, and seeks Him with great solicitude...
Oh, if you too were so solicitous in seeking your God!...Why then, do you go about the world, not in quest of God, but of yourself but of creatures?...Do not resist the divine invitations; open your heart wide to the purifying action of the Holy Spirit; He alone can finally disengage you from all earthly cares and solicitude."
--from Divine Intimacy, pp. 1082-1083
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I love the meditation by Catherine Doherty, and recommend to all the rest of it as printed in the Magnificat for November 2011.
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