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It is not what you are nor what you have been that God sees with
all merciful eyes,
but what you desire to be.
The Cloud of Unknowing
There
is something wanting in education where a child has not had its share of
leisure, to be rapt in silence and alone…
Janet Stuart rscJ
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Mater Admirablis -
Marie-Therese de Lescure, RSCJ
Under the pressure of over-activity
which at times consumes us,
disturbs us, or scatters our energies
in doing what is visible and accidental,
let us come to our “Mater”.
She is the mother of the invisible
and the mother of the Essential.
Let us ask her to detach us,
to free us from all that is not important,
to lead us on, and to fix our gaze upon the invisible
which our eyes look upon;
the Invisible Presence, the Invisible life,
the Invisible Action, the Invisible Love,
all those things which are eternal values in us
and the great realities of faith.
May she keep us throughout our busy day and overworked days
in the radiance of things that are not seen
and firm as if we beheld the Invisible.
In the midst of non-essentials
which invite and often distract us,
we run the risk of encumbering our beings
and confusing our values.
May she give us
the right understanding of the Essential
and a hunger for it.
One thing alone is necessary –
the will of God and the work of God’s love.
May Mater give us this singleness of vision
so that we, too, may see
the Invisible and the Essential in all.
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