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such people. In such acts, love is pure, and such practice of love gives the soul
endurance and strength. I do not expect anything from creatures, and therefore I am not
disappointed. I know that a creature is poor of itself, (180) so what can one expect from
it? God is everything to me; I want to evaluate everything according to God‟s ways.
767 + My communion with the Lord is now purely spiritual. My soul is touched by god and
wholly absorbs itself in Him, even to the complete forgetfulness of self. Permeated by
God to its very depths, it drowns in His beauty; it completely dissolves in Him – I am at a
loss to describe this, because in writing I am making use of the senses; but there, in that
union, the senses are not active; there is a merging of God and the soul; and the life of
God to which the soul is admitted is so great that the human tongue cannot express it.
When the soul returns to its habitual form of life, it then sees that this life is all darkness
and mist and dreamlike confusion, an infant‟s swaddling clothes. In such moments the
soul only receives from God, for of itself it does nothing; it does not make even the
slightest effort; all in her is wrought by God. But when the soul returns to its ordinary
state, it sees that it is not (181) within its power to continue in this union.
These moments are short, but their effects are lasting. The soul cannot remain long in
this sate; or else it would be forcibly freed of the bonds of the body forever. Even as it is,
it is sustained by a miracle of God. God allows the soul to know in a clear way how much
He loves it, as though it were the only object of His delight. The soul recognizes this
clearly and without a veil, so to speak. It reaches out for God with all its might, but it feels
like a baby; it knows that this is not within its power. Therefore, God descends to the
soul and unites it to Himself in a way that…. Here, I must be silent, for I cannot describe
what the soul experiences.
768 It is a strange thing that although the soul which experiences this union with God cannot
find words and expressions to describe it, nevertheless, when it meets a similar soul, the
two understand each other extraordinarily well in regard to these matters, even though
they speak but little with each other. A soul united with God in this way easily recognizes
a similar soul, even if (182) the latter has not revealed its interior [life] to it, but merely
speaks in an ordinary way. It is a kind of spiritual kinship. Souls united with God in this
way are few, fewer than we think.
769 I have noticed that the Lord grants this grace to souls for two purposes. The first is when
the soul is to do some great work which is, humanly speaking, absolutely beyond its
power. In the second case, I have noticed that the Lord grants it in order that kindred
souls might be guided and set at peace, although the Lord can grant this grace as He
pleases and to whomever He pleases. However, I have noticed this grace in three
priests, one of whom is a secular priest [probably Father Sopocko] and the other two,
religious priests [probably Father Elter and Father Andrasz], and also in two religious
sisters [probably Mother Michael and Sister Mary Joseph], but not in the same degree.
770 As for myself, I received this grace for the first time, and that for only a brief moment, in
the eighteenth 149 year of my life, within the octave of Corpus Christi [June 18-25, 1925],
during Vespers, when I made to the Lord Jesus the vow of perpetual chastity. (183) I
was still living in the world, but I entered the convent soon afterwards. The grace lasted
for a very brief moment, but its power was great. After this grace, there was a long
interval. It is true that I received many graces from the Lord during this interval, but they
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