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Seventh Consolation of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Upon another occasion, as I was gazing at the Cross with the Crucified, and was looking at the Crucified with my bodily eyes, such a fervent love was suddenly kindled in my soul that even the members of my body felt it with great joy and delight. I saw and felt that Christ embraced my soul with the arm wherewith He was crucified, wherefore I rejoiced with a joy greater than I had ever had before.
From this time forth there hath remained unto me a certain joy and clear enlightenment, whereby the soul knoweth and understandeth how it is that we see our flesh made one company with God. And this true delight of the soul was more unspeakable, this joy was more constant and this enlightenment was clearer than I had ever had before. There remained unto me, therefore, so complete an assurance and certainty of my state that I had no more doubt whatsoever but that this state is most certainly from God, and likewise that the admonitions or words which I heard within me are also from God. And I marvelled how hitherto I could possibly have doubted this. And so entirely certain was I of this state that I could not have believed otherwise even if all the men in the world had told me the contrary.
Even now, when I am rapt in this vision and embrace, my soul is so filled with joy that I can feel no sadness whatsoever of the Passion, albeit I see that that Hand is wounded. All my joy lieth now in Christ Crucified, and sometimes it seemeth unto my soul that in the aforesaid close embrace it entereth into the side of Christ — and the joy which my soul hath of this illumination cannot be described, for it is so great that sometimes I cannot stand upon my feet, but do fall down and lose my speech.
Here End the Consolations of the Passion of Christ.
Upon another occasion, as I was gazing at the Cross with the Crucified, and was looking at the Crucified with my bodily eyes, such a fervent love was suddenly kindled in my soul that even the members of my body felt it with great joy and delight. I saw and felt that Christ embraced my soul with the arm wherewith He was crucified, wherefore I rejoiced with a joy greater than I had ever had before.
From this time forth there hath remained unto me a certain joy and clear enlightenment, whereby the soul knoweth and understandeth how it is that we see our flesh made one company with God. And this true delight of the soul was more unspeakable, this joy was more constant and this enlightenment was clearer than I had ever had before. There remained unto me, therefore, so complete an assurance and certainty of my state that I had no more doubt whatsoever but that this state is most certainly from God, and likewise that the admonitions or words which I heard within me are also from God. And I marvelled how hitherto I could possibly have doubted this. And so entirely certain was I of this state that I could not have believed otherwise even if all the men in the world had told me the contrary.
Even now, when I am rapt in this vision and embrace, my soul is so filled with joy that I can feel no sadness whatsoever of the Passion, albeit I see that that Hand is wounded. All my joy lieth now in Christ Crucified, and sometimes it seemeth unto my soul that in the aforesaid close embrace it entereth into the side of Christ — and the joy which my soul hath of this illumination cannot be described, for it is so great that sometimes I cannot stand upon my feet, but do fall down and lose my speech.
Here End the Consolations of the Passion of Christ.
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre