33 Days to Morning Glory

Your own prayers, your suffrages are as so many increases the fire of love. They increase its ardour, its heat. But oh, blessed torment, they also increase the capacity to love. They quicken the process of purgation. They raise to ever higher levels, the souls immersed in that fire. They bring them to the threshold of light. And at last, they open the gates of light and introduce the soul into heaven. For each of these works provided by your charity for the one who has preceded you into the second life, there is a corresponding jump in charity for you. The charity of God, which thanks you for providing for his repentant children, the charity of the repentant themselves, who thank you for endeavoring to place them in the joy of God, never do your dear ones love you as they do after their death from the earth. Because their love is thereafter infused with the light of God. And in this light they understand how you love them and how they should have loved you. They cannot speak words to y...

How can it be, how is it possible? How can it be that you're so glorious, that you're so magnificant, that you're so exalted? How can it be? And her response was to look down at me with pity and shake her head gently and say: Oh no, you don't understand. I'm nothing, I'm a creature, I'm a created thing. He's everything. ... What actually ended the audience was, I began to worship her. It's very hard to describe what that means, but my heart, the movement of my heart transgressed into worship. And she had to leave and she kind of discreetly left at that point. She kind of backed away: I can't stay here if you're going to do that. But that was basically that very human, very natural mistake to make, if I can say so. We know for an instance when an angel appeared to Saint John in the book of Revelation, it's just an angel who appeared to John and he threw himself on the ground and began to worship the angel. And the angel said: Get up, that...