TradCatKnight: In the Garden...

A Victim of Love.  God is looking for men void of self Whom He can live in and suffer through them.  It is hard to comprehend all the souls going to hell but perhaps if we can each help a little we can save a decent amount of souls from ultimately entering eternal damnation.  We can use holy suffering to advance our own souls but also we can help the souls in Purgatory.  Love has victims.  Christ is our Victim and if we profess to be in His Body does His Body not suffer still?  Is the Church herself not suffering these days?  As God cranks up the dial on the heat of suffering so is the “self consumed”.  If you were to boil a little pot of water over time it would simply evaporate.  So if you find yourself suffering for long periods of time you can be assured that He is trying to evaporate the self in you.  Christ cant live in something already alive (mystically) and thus we must be dead.  Dead to the world and detached from all things.  This is what it means in part to be an eagle.

Agony and pain in the desert of Lent.  Yes, we must all pass through the desert before we can experience the “Promised Land” of spiritual Oneness with our God.  If you find yourself going around in circles in this desert not making any progress it is not Gods fault but it is your own.  Are you complaining and murmuring which is attributed to self?  God will keep you on that circle path until you are fully loosened from the self. No man can stand in His Presence who is not yet wholly consumed by His Fire hence the need of Purgatory.  If the pain wounds your ego than you are alive.  Having said that, of course, pain will cause us to cry and reach out.  Even Our Lord cried therefore do not be so brazen to think you can or ought not.  The loneliness of this desert is similar to the loneliness Our Lord felt in the Garden.  I have been given a glimpse of this over the years at times and it is truly heart wrenching.  Scripture says “He looked for one to comfort Him and He found none!”.  This is truly heartbreaking therefore, my good friends, in the days ahead be sure to unite your suffering to Christ.  Unify your heart His and recite Faith over fear thy will be done.  You are truly not alone in the desert for Christ is with you.  The Wind which speaks is evidence of this.  And when the night of the desert approaches look to the heavens to see the full moon which is representative of Our Lady.  Yea, suffering drives us inward to a place many have never been before because they have lived such selfish lives for so long.  It is meant to be lonely because it is here you find Him alone.