Monday Musings - The Great Task of Our Present Life

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"…the great task of the present life is to make ourselves pure. Nothing unclean shall enter into the kingdom of God’s holiness. That we may see Him and contemplate the splendor of His glory, the eye of our soul must be wholly pure. Though we may have only a speck of dust on our wedding garment, we may not enter into heaven until we have cleansed it in the Blood of the Lamb…

One must never cease to purify oneself. Rather than lose the treasure of purity, it would be better to flee into the desert, condemn oneself to a life of privation; it would be better to abandon all one’s activities, however good and praiseworthy they might be.

The salvation of all the souls in the world is not so important as your own salvation. What God wants from you first of all, and above all, is that without which all else is nothing: yourself!

Oh, if we have not all the sublime and heroic virtues of the saints, let us be pure! And if we have been so unfortunate as to lose our baptismal innocence, let us clothe ourselves with the innocent of penance!

Without purity, there can be no life of love.”

(St. Peter Julian Eymard from Holy Communion)