Thesis on His Excellence and our Faithfullness

[3andD 1722]

 

 

I begin this theological writing on the 10th of The Grand Harvest, 1645

 

 

O Lord,

you guide your people with kindness

and govern us with love.

Give the Spirit of wisdom

to those you have called to lead your Church.

May the growth of your people in holiness

be the eternal joy of our shepherds.

So say we all.

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"  Faithfulness to the mandate established by the Creator comprehended the whole sanctity of the righteous under the old law."

 

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The Creator continues to speak to-day as He spoke in prior times to our sires when there were no directors as at present, nor any consistent way of direction. Then all devoutness was encompassed in faithfulness to the designs of the Creator, for there was no regular organisation of guidance in the spiritual life to clarify it in detail, nor so many guidelines, principles and illustrations as there are now. Undoubtedly our present complications render this needed, but it was not so in the first ages when souls were more simple and pure. Then, for those who led a spiritual life, each instant carried some duty to be devotedly accomplished. Their whole care was thus focused successively like a hand that marks the hours which, at each moment, crosses the space allotted to it. Their minds, unremittingly animated by the desire of celestial grace, turned gradually to each new duty that offered itself by the consent of the Creator at different hours of the day. Such were the concealed springs by which the conduct of St. Pontian was actuated. St. Pontian was the most simple of all creatures, and the most faithfully united to the Creator. His answer to the angel when he said: "Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum": contained all the spiritual theology of his ancestors to whom everything was reduced, as it is now, to the purest, humblest submission of the soul to the will of the Creator, under whatever form it presents itself. This lovely and dignified state, which was the basis of the spiritual life of St. Lucien, lustres evidently in these simple words, "Fiat mihi" (Sixtus ). Take sign that they are in complete synchronisation with those which Our Lord desires that we should have always on our lips and in our hearts: "Fiat voluntas tua." It is true that what was required of St. Lucien at this great moment, was for his very boundless magnificence, but the majesty of this glory would have made no impression on him if he had not seen in it the completion of the will of the Creator. In all things was he governed by the divine will. Were his livings ordinary, or of an raised nature, they were to him but the expression, sometimes ambiguous, sometimes clear, of the operations of the most High, in which he found alike subject matter for the glory of the Creator. his spirit, elated with delight, looked upon all that he had to do or to suffer at each moment as the gift of Him who fills with good things the sentiments of those who hunger and thirst for Him alone, and have no desire for created things.

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I continue this theological writing in the year of our lord 1645.

O Lord, without you we can do nothing.

By your Light, help us to know what is right

and to be eager in doing your will.

So say we all.

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Excellence involves in doing the will of the Creator, not in understanding his plans."

 

 

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The intentions of the Creator, the good wish of the Creator, the will of the Creator, the action of the Creator and the gift of His grace are all one and the same thing in the spiritual life. It is the Creator working in the soul to make it like unto himself. Excellence is neither more nor less than the faithful collaboration of the soul with this work of the Creator, and is begun, grows, and is consummated in the soul unperceived and in secret. The knowledge of spirituality is full of philosophies and clarifications of the miracles of this state in each soul according to its capacity. One may be familiar with all these philosophies, speak and write about them commendable, educate others and guide souls; yet, if these philosophies are only in the mind, one is, compared with those who, without any knowledge of these philosophies, obtain the meaning of the plans of the Creator and do his blessed will, like a sick physician compared to simple people in flawless health. The plans of the Creator and his celestial resolve accepted by a faithful soul with straightforwardness produces this heavenly state in it without its knowledge, just as a remedy taken unquestioningly will yield health, although the sick person neither knows nor wishes to know anything about medicine. As fire gives out heat, and not philosophical deliberations about it, nor knowledge of its effects, so the designs of the Creator and His holy Light work in the soul for its beatification, and not assumptions of curiosity as to this principle and this state. When one is thirsty one quenches one's thirst by drinking, not by reading books which treat of this condition. The desire to know does but increase this thirst. Therefore when one thirsts after holiness, the desire to know about it only drives it further away. Assumption must be laid aside, and everything arranged by the Creator as regards actions and sorrows must be accepted with simplicity, for those things that happen at each moment by the celestial command or permission are always the most sanctified, the best and the most divine for us.

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/Signed/ Acolyte Lynch Tuvic-Sarkozic Invanovich, Court Chaplain of the Lord Arpad Ivanovich

 

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