Principles and Practices - December 30

When God gives to a soul the grace of elevation to the highest degree of sanctity, He refuses it nothing: it obtains, as a rule, all that it asks. If we beg such a one to ask any favour from God, then, as soon as it sets itself to lay its request before Him, it is aware that the Spirit of God transports it into the secret places of such beauty that it loses itself, forgetting the subject of its prayers and no longer having any recollection of what it desired to ask. And yet God grants these desires, and its wishes have effect without its thinking of them. One soul at this point of perfection can alone uphold, by its prayers and its credit with God, a whole religious Order, and entire kingdom.

-Father Lallemant.
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From Principles and Practices
Compiled by Rev. J. Hogan of The Catholic Missionary Society
Published by Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., Publishers To The Holy See
Nihil Obstat; Eduardus J. Mahoney, S.T.D. Censor deputatus.
Imprimatur; Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius generalis.
First printed in 1930