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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:THE JOY OF THE ONE WHO LIVES FOR GOD ALONE \nFrom the letters of Saint Rafael Arnaiz3 \n◊◊◊ \nGod alone. How difficult it is to understand and live these words\, but once \nyou do\, even if just for a moment… there is nothing in the world that can trouble \nyour soul… A great peace fills the hearts of those who live for God alone\, and only \nthose who desire God alone find peace… \nHe gives what the world and its creatures cannot. Our misery\, forgetfulness\, \nand ingratitude are covered with His infinite Mercy. The consolation that people \nso often deny us when we are in pain can be found in His cross\, alone with Him on \nCalvary. The only Truth can be found in His Gospel\, the words of eternal life. And \nas if that weren’t enough\, everything else can be found in His Mother Mary… \nBlessed are those who mourn\, Jesus said on earth\, by the water’s edge\, and \na crowd made up of the sick\, the lame\, the poor\, and sinners followed Him. . . I \nbelieve that after turning toward Jesus\, their faces\, once tear stained from all their \nweeping\, were transformed with joyful laughter\, blessing their afflictions and \nmiseries\, which united them to Jesus. And Jesus looked at them with the \ntenderness that won over the world\, and let Himself be loved by the poor\, the \nafflicted\, the sick\, and sinners. And Jesus healed them\, and Jesus consoled them\, \nand Jesus forgave them… \nWhat a great joy it is to realize you are beloved of God! To be counted among \nHis friends\, to follow Him step by step in Jerusalem with your eyes fixed on His \ndivine countenance\, blessing our own misery for having inspired Jesus to attract \nour gaze\, so that He might reach our hearts\, heal us\, forgive us… and love us \nenough to die for us on a cross… That is true joy\, the joy of the one who lives for \nGod alone\, who trusts in God alone\, who hopes in God alone. And it is not a raucous \njoy; it is the serene joy of a soul who might still live on this earth\, but expects \nnothing from this world. It is the joy of one who lives for Christ and dreams of \nMary… \nIf the path proves difficult\, or arduous\, or long\, it won’t matter\, Jesus goes \nbefore us… We’ll press on\, day or night\, drunk with joy\, utterly mad with it\, not \nlistening to the world… “God alone…” our heart will bellow… And that is how we \nshall keep our silence as we walk around in this world… Oh\, we can indeed weep \nand suffer\, but not because of our own crosses and sorrows\, which are very small \nindeed\, but rather… over how ungrateful we are toward Jesus\, and how often we \nforget Mary… Mary. It wasn’t enough for God to give us His Son on a cross; He \ngave us Mary\, too. How is it possible\, brother\, that we aren’t better than this?… \nNeither the body\, our soul’s prison\, nor the world with all its creatures can \ndamage the soul that hopes in God\, no matter how harshly they chafe against it. \nWe can conquer and disregard the body\, and instead of fearing contact with \ncreatures\, love them\, even searching them out in order to teach them the science \nthat Christ taught us… love… \nLet nothing trouble you\, for He gives so much to the souls of His friends\, \nonly to have us shrug off the treasure that is Christ’s gentle yoke at every vain \ndisturbance that life provides… God alone. Let us not grow tired of repeating it. If \nwe were to take the intensity of the effort we put into earthly matters and put it \ninto love for God instead… things would be different… With silence\, prayer\, and a \nwhole lot of inner madness\, we can wait well for what is to come… and it will all \ncome. \n  \n3 Saint Rafael Arnaiz. The Collected Works. Trans. Catherine Addington. Collegeville\, MN: Cistercian Publications\,
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