My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

He, who relies upon God, becomes by this very reliance
as powerful and as invincible as God, and created
powers can no more prevail against him than against
God Himself. This confidence in the fatherly providence
of God can not, evidently, dispense us from doing
all that is in our power to accomplish His designs; but,
after having done all that depends upon our efforts, we
will abandon ourselves completely to God for the rest.
- FR. RAP~IERE, S. J., in Abandonntent.
HEN we will what God wills," says St. Alphonccm
sus, "it is our own greatest good that we will;
for God desires what is for our greatest advantage.
Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God,
that He may do with you what He pleases." God can
not be deceived and we may rest assured that what He
determines will be best for us. Can there be a better
prayer than this: "Fiat Volzrntas Tual" "Thy Will
be k I " "My Lmd, illy God, and .4fy A,U/"
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o BE "in tune with the Infinite" means, in a truly
35 Christian sense, to live in perfect conformity
with the will of God; it means, in its perfect sense, not
only submission or resignation to the divine will, but
thorough self-abandonment, prompted by the pure love
of God; it means the cultivation of that peaceable state
-"the peace of expectant love" - which St. Francis
of Sales calls "holy indifference" -"a word we now
understand to mean," as we read in his "Life" by De
Margerie, "not the coldness, the torpor of a heart, that
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