St.
John-Francis Regis visits Marie-Julie Jahenny – Sufferings of the Cross in these evil times
Worthy of Holy Envy – Slanderers: how they behave – the Mortal
Danger of Slander - Unless God Intervenes Slanderers Will be Lost
Ecstasy
August 13, 1878
“I have
come to give a word on behalf of God at the entry of your Holy
Novitiate. We are at the foot of the Cross, and we wait and we hope
to go into our sweet and Blessed Country.
What is this
earth, what is suffering in comparison with endless happiness? Our
life on earth is short and Our Lord has measured our years. Let us
commence, it is time to live for God and for Heaven.
If the
adorable Lord descended now, upon a bright cloud to judge and
condemn, how would He find any just in this fair land of merit? It is
frightening! ... Today, what injustice! What hidden infamies! What
veiled slander! How do they persevere, those souls who commit them?
This is how
they do it.
First they
try to stifle remorse, but it follows them everywhere. In
conversations, in their companies, their words are beautiful, clear
as glass. But the reasoning of the soul, at the bottom of their
interior, no one hears and it is frightening. The soul moans, cries,
suffers, because it is the only thing in these men that belongs to
the Sovereign Good. (I.e. the rest of these sinners has become
completely evil in thought, word and deed.)
Slander
is like a worm, it eats into the soul of the most beautiful and
chaste virtues, and then, after being eaten whole, the soul can not
become master because it is opposed by the evil human mind, by human
nature so angry and so cruel. The soul can no longer prevail, and if
God does not come to its aid, it is forever doomed …
Wait with
patience! The time of the Lord is open to Heaven. But what a surprise
for the headstrong! (The stubborn sinners who refuse to repent.) But
what joy for the few (i.e. the righteous that suffer on earth) that I
envy their position on earth, because I would have the honour to
suffer for my God! Heaven, I come to their aid!
How
admirable is the way of the Cross! It is worthy of envy!
How great
are its merits! O Royal Way! Vive la Croix, the treasure of the true
chosen ones ...”
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Notes:
St.
Johan-Francis Regis was born at Font-Couverte in the diocese of
Narbonne in Langedoc, France. At the age of eighteen he entered the
Society of Jesus at Béziers, was ordained in 1631, and from that
moment knew no rest spending himself in preaching the Gospel to the
uneducated farmers of Languedoc and Auvergne, providing for prisoners
and fallen women, establishing confraternities of the Blessed
Sacrament, and effecting everywhere numerous conversions among the
Protestant Huguenots. He died while preaching a mission on December
30, 1640, and was canonized in 1737. (New feast day June 16,
traditional feast day December 31.).
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