"I Believe in Love" Day 11 Part One---Abandonment to Jesus

[Dawn Marie]

Excerpts from the book “I believe in love”.

By Father Jean C.J. d’Elbee

DAY 11

PART ONE

ABANDONMENT TO JESUS

 

 

‘WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING.”

“WITH YOU JESUS, I CAN DO ALL THINGS.”

RENEW THESE THOUGHTS WHICH BIND YOU TO HIM.  THE LOGICAL AND NECESSARY CONSEQUENCE OF THE COMPLETE CONFIDENCE WHICH I HAVE PREACHED TO YOU UNTIL NOW IS TOTAL ABANDONMENT.

SINCE IT IS THROUGH JESUS THAT EVERYTHING MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED, THE MORE I LET HIM DO, THE MORE THE WORK OF GRACE WILL BE BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT.

WHAT IS THIS WORK OF GRACE?  THE TRANSFORMATION OF OUR SOUL INTO JESUS THROUGH LOVE.  ST. THOMAS SHOWS US, AFTER ST. AUGUSTINE, THAT THE EUCHARIST TRANSFORMS OUR SOULS INTO JESUS THROUGH LOVE.  IT IS THERE THAT I FIND THE DEFINITION OF SANCTITY, THE FINAL WORD, IF I MA PUT IT THAT WAY, OF OUR DIVINE PREDESTINATION.

 

PERHAPS YOU WILL SAY TO ME, “YOU CLAIM THAT WE ARE CONTINUALLY TRANSFORMED MORE AND MORE INTO HIM, BUT I DO NOT NOTICE IT; I CANNOT PUT MY FINGER ON IT.  AND EVEN SOME DAYS, SEEING MYSELF SO MISERABLE, I AM TEMPTED TO BELIEVE THE CONTRARY.”

YET, DO YOU NOT SEE THINGS MORE THAN EVER AS HE DOES?  OF COURSE YOU DO.  DO YOU NOT WANT WHAT HE WANTS, MORE EVERYDAY?  OF COURSE YOU DO.  I AM SURE THAT YOU WANT TO LOVE HIM AND MAKE HIM LOVED, WITH A WILL EVEN MORE SINCERE, EVEN MORE PROFOUND, WITH A DESIRE EVEN MORE SURE THAN EVER, ALTHOUGH PERHAPS NOT FELT.  YOU WOULD NOT SAY “I HAVE LESS DESIRE TO LOVE HIM AND MAKE HIM LOVED THAN YESTERDAY.”

WHAT TRIPS US UP IS THAT WE MISTAKE SENSIBLE FERVOR FOR SANCTITY.  BUT IT IS NOT.   SANCTITY IS A DISPOSITION OF SOUL, ANIMATED BY GRACE, WHICH IS THE LIFE OF THE SOUL, UNDER THE ACTION OF INFUSED VIRTUES AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST; A DISPOSITION TO BELONG TO JESUS MORE THAN EVER, TO ACCOMPLISH HIS WILL, TO KNOW HIM AND MAKE HIM KNOWN, TO LOVE HIM AND MAKE HIM MORE LOVED.

 

HE LOOKS MUCH MORE AT WHAT WE ARE THAN WHAT WE DO; AND WE ARE, IN HIS EYES, WHAT WE SINCERELY WANT TO BE FOR HIM.

WE UNDERSTAND NOW WHY SO MANY COMMUNIONS---THOSE COMMUNIONS WHICH TRANSFORM US INTO HIM----DO NOT BRING US ALL THE SUPERNATURAL FRUITS THAT THEY COULD.  WE OPEN OUR ARMS TO HIM, YET WE CLOSE THE DOORS OF OUR INTELLIGENCE, OF OUR WILL, OF OUR HEART, BY NOT LIVING IN THIS ABANDONMENT.

WE BID HIM COME, BUT WE DO NOT PERMIT HIM TO ENTER.  BUT, IF IN RECEIVING HIM, WE GRANT HIM, BY PERFECT ABANDONMENT, ALL THE CONTROLS, ALL THE KEYS TO THE HOUSE, THAT HE MAY BE MASTER IN US WITH FULL LIBERTY TO ACT, THEN OH!  WHAT MARVELS WILL HIS OMNIPOTENCE NOT ACCOMPLISH IN OUR SOULS IN THE SERVICE OF HIS LOVE!

[Flavia Talladen Schott]

Amen.

St Therese pray for us. 

Lord, thru the intercessions of St. Therese, I give You the key to everything. Amen.

[AURA CID L F FERREIRA DE BRITTO]

THE MORE I LET HIM DO, THE MORE THE WORK OF GRACE WILL BE BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT.

SANCTITY IS A DISPOSITION TO BELONG TO JESUS MORE THAN EVER,

TO ACCOMPLISH HIS WILL, TO KNOW HIM AND MAKE HIM KNOWN,

TO LOVE HIM AND MAKE HIM MORE LOVED.

 WE ARE, IN HIS EYES, WHAT WE SINCERELY WANT TO BE FOR HIM.

†Amen†

[bernadette szczepkowski]

I am all yours, My Jesus!

[Michael]

Amen.

[Michael]

Amen.

[bernadette szczepkowski]

Abandonment to Jesus every day!

[Gloria]

I can do all things through Jesus Christ.

[Carmen]

and so I believe

[Carmen]

thank you 

[Carmen]

thank you