Anna Lo

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Arise, then, bride of Christ, be like the dove that nests in the rock-face at the mouth of a cavern, and there, like a sparrow which finds its home, do not cease to keep vigil; there, like a turtle-dove, hide the fledglings of your chaste love; place your lips there to draw water from the wells of your Saviour. For this is the spring flowing from the middle of paradise; it divides and becomes four rivers, then spreads through all devout hearts, and waters the whole world and makes it fruitful. O soul devoted to God, whoever you may be, run to this source of life and light with eager longing.
Pic of antiphons for benedictus and magnificat - my heart burns within me; I desire to behold my Lord : I seek and find not where they have laid him, alleluia alleluia. I did put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, and said My Lord and my God, alleluia.
If anything, however lovely and sacred, supplants in the soul the supreme desire for the Living God, it cuts life at the root, and though the plant may seem green and fresh for a time, slow death is on the way. There is reason to fear that modern social feeling has these bad tendencies. The quest for union with God is a stern and fearsome thing, and men seek always facile substitutes. So they try to replace this quest by a vague humanitarian ardor, press the truth that laborare est orare to the point of eliminating orare altogether, and make a religion out of ministering to the poor and working for social justice. When they feel the need for more contemplation, as everybody does at times, they betake them if they can to the great woods and relax pleasantly as they enjoy Nature. These people are repeating in modern fashion the specious error of the old "Quietists," whom Ruysbroek so dreaded in the 14th century… “They enter into rest through mere nature… and this rest may be found within themselves by all creatures, without the grace of God…” A condition like this is lamentable and superficial.
Hand on chair in a chapel facing the altar with an aumbry in the back