Just for Today, September 7

Delight in the Lord and he will give thee the requests of thy heart (Ps. xxxvi, 4). For if thou wilt be delighted in truth, and receive more abundant consolation from Me, behold, in the contempt of all worldly things, and in the renouncing of all those mean pleasures, thou shalt be blessed, and an exceeding great comfort be derived to thy soul. And the more thou withdrawest thyself from all comfort in things created, the more sweet and the more powerful consolations wilt thou find in Me.
-Bk. III, ch. xii.
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St Teresa had care of the statue of the Child Jesus in the cloister. On the eve of her Profession, Soeur Marie du Sacre-Coeur noticed with surprise that she had arranged the same candles which had burnt on her Clothing day, instead of the new pink ones provided. The Saint sent her the following note in explanation: "The others mean far more to me. They looked so fresh and pink on my Clothing day; my Father had given them, and he was present, and all was joy. Now their colour has faded. Are these any rose-coloured joys for your little Teresa to be found on earth? No, there is nothing left but heavenly joys; created things, which are empty and vain, have given place to the great reality, which is uncreated."
-Letters.
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Adapted from Just For Today(©1943 Burns & Oates)
Nihil Obstat: Reginaldus Phillips, S.T.L.,Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: Edwardus Myers, Vic. Cap.