Julie Billiart: Mystic(part 2)
It is time to embrace the awakening consciousnessof our time, inviting us to reclaim the ancient mystical wisdom of the one earth and the one universe. A new universality characterizes our time. It is a cultural and spiritual breakthrough inaugurating new evolutionary thresholds inviting us humans to respond in a much more enlightened, creative, and cooperative mode.
Diarmuid O’Murchu, Evolutionary Faith pp. 195-196
Awakening implies an ability to see what is within…. This leads to reflection on their own God-given dignity, and they are gradually healed from their former wounded nature. MyraPoole, Prayer, Protest, Power, p 94
Julie considered this degree of humility, of transformation of consciousness, to be essential in the mystical process of self-actualisation. … This level of consciousness or humility gives birth to a mystic, prophetic spirituality, that of a person who often unknowingly is called to awaken a deeper consciousness in others. … The effect of transformation in prayer is revealed in transformation in life. MyraPoole, Prayer, Protest, Power, p. 100
So you do not yet want to be good for nothing, to allow God to be glorified by others? You do not yet see yourself fit for that, my good friend? Well, then let us await God’s own good time. L4— To Francoise Blin de Bourdon, September 1, 1795
There are souls whom God trains a long time in this exercise (contemplation). That does not mean these souls are not called to it, but the good God wants to keep them humble so that they may afterwards work with greater profit for his glory. Let us adore in this, my good friend, his admirable plans for each of us and let us try to put as few obstacles as possible in his way. For often it is our fault if we do not accomplish all the good God asks of us. The more we rely on grace the more we shall distrust our own weakness and advance in confidence in God’s goodness, which will never be lacking to us in circumstances that concern his glory. L5—To the Citizeness Francoise Blin, September 15, 1795
Offer him many little marks of affection and filial love, even without talking about anything. Who knows the time when God will act, my friend? That is why we must not become tired of waiting for the most favorable time; the good God himself has waited for us do long. Oh, how good he is!
L6— To Francoise Blin de Bourdon, October 21, 1795
An emerging universe provides us with a new and powerful way of depicting our experience of the world and the presence of God in that world. The presence of God alwaysunfolds from within, whether in the cosmic drama of the formation of galaxies, in the gradual evolution of species here on Earth, or in the inner consciousness of the human race. Cletus Wessels, Jesus in the New Universe Story, p. 222
But you must not hurry; just go on moment by moment. That is the surest way of doing the holy will of God and of avoiding all kinds of interior agitation. …as you know, you must let him act freely in you. Do less yourself, and you will see that the good God will do his work in you in peace and quiet. It is in this way that grace is communicated to the soul; I cannot exhort you strongly enough in this respect. Always wait until your first impulse is spent, without worrying about its turbulence, as if refusing to notice it. Then put yourself again into the holy presence of God, as if nothing had happened. That is the means of regaining the peace you desire so much to possess. L22— To Francoise Blin de Bourdon, c. June 10, 1796
I bless the good God that all is going well. In all events of life, God, God, God alone, God all alone—we must never lose sight of this. He holds all in his hands. He knows how to find his glory in events that are most troublesome from our point of view. L37—To Soeur Blin, July 18, 1804
There has been question of something which is very puzzling. We must wait for the right time; then it will be clearer. … There are only vague little bits here and there. … I want only to go on day by day, moment by moment, always by the holy will of God. L64—To Mere St Joseph, January 19, 1808
I do not want to hurry. If the good God asks for it I am ready, but we must wait to know his will even better. L169—To Soeur St Jean
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