Tuesday before Ash Wednesday
Saint Francis de Sales has said that we are called to the highest perfection and at the same time he wishes us to be so little and so simple that we must look for a special means to reach this end.This precious means forms the third article of our directory.That an admirable page and true treasure of the Visitation, wherein is condensed in a few lines is a complete treatise of the most sublime and the most solid perfection. The question is, how to know how to draw from this treasure.How to become sufficiently nourished to satiate these desires? It is that prayer that we will acquire this knowledge and the third article, little words deepened under divine light, can help us to. Exploit this rich mine, all of whose treasures we shall not know except in heaven.
If each day during Lent we take one of these luminous words, study it, practice it, live it, and repeat this exercise, our souls will not delay in feeling their influence.The virtues of humility, obedience, and mortification will have started to establish themselves. Then abandonment to God’s will shall introduce the soul to the superior regions of adoration and union.Then we shall progress on the way of our Lord, and the whole secret of sanctity lies in that.