We tend to think many times that to reach God we have to make an extraordinary effort, forcing ourselves to reach Him.
We forget that anything good that comes out of us is a result of a grace, because without grace we are not capable of doing not even so much as the Sign of the Cross with devotion.
So the thing is to make an effort to have graces? No.
It is simply not putting obstacles to grace, because even being faithful to a grace is a grace and it is only a matter of not hindering it.
And the best way of doing this is to let yourself be taken by splendor. Admiration of a superior thing because it is superior, St. Thomas says, is like being baptized again, it wipes sins away.
Admire, seek celestial things and even in the prosaic day to day life, always keep your sights high.
Ad te levavi oculos meos...
We forget that anything good that comes out of us is a result of a grace, because without grace we are not capable of doing not even so much as the Sign of the Cross with devotion.
So the thing is to make an effort to have graces? No.
It is simply not putting obstacles to grace, because even being faithful to a grace is a grace and it is only a matter of not hindering it.
And the best way of doing this is to let yourself be taken by splendor. Admiration of a superior thing because it is superior, St. Thomas says, is like being baptized again, it wipes sins away.
Admire, seek celestial things and even in the prosaic day to day life, always keep your sights high.
Ad te levavi oculos meos...
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