Matters of Faith

This is the Meditation of the Day found in the Magnificat for Tuesday, January 26^th.  I hope it is as helpful and encouraging to you as it is to me!

“Be calm, infinitely calm, both in soul and in body.  Do not attempt too much, but what you do, do well and gently.  Quality first, but good quality.  Follow grace in souls; take its step.  It is adagio; often adagisimo, but very sure.  Forget yourself completely—time, studies, health, reputation…Give yourself utterly, without counting the cost, without reserve, without thought of yourself.  God alone!

We know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good.  To those with good will: that is to say, those who, submitting and making over their reason and will to the Holy Spirit and allowing themselves to be guided by him, invariably arrive at that perfection willed for them by God.  That does not mean that we can sit with our arms folded and leave it all to him.  On the contrary, we must make use of all that divine Providence sends us: reverses, falls even; bearing always in mind the good that the Holy Spirit wants to draw from these things.  Given that disposition, the Holy Spirit will never be absent.  He also makes use of reverses to correct our faults and set us on our way again.  Use everything, then, with this end in view; in all weathers, keep your compass pointing to God; make him your aim.”  Dom Augustin Guillerand, O.Cart.