Sunday 25 February 2018

#109 St. Thomas Aquinas - Marie-Julie Jahenny's Mystic Sun and the Doubting Priest




St. Thomas Aquinas visits Marie-Julie and they speak about her gift of the mystic sun. (To learn more about this special gift see post # #56 Marie-Julie Jahenny - Mystic Gifts are Increased - the Mystic Sun ).

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Ecstasy March 4, 1880


"St. Thomas,” she said, “do you want to give it to me, this sun?  Not for me or my friends, but for the dear ('entrelaceur' = ? ) for all merits.  He would see in it that infinite love does not leave so much seen today."

The 'entrelaceur' is Father Rabine who does not understand the ways of his penitent. The saint replied:

St. Thomas Aquinas: "Never, for this eye, this request will not be answered.”

Marie-Julie Jahenny: “Because, St. Thomas?”

St. Thomas: “Because (this) light will never bring (him) back into the true path of the work of the Good God. "


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Observations: This particular text / ecstasy is difficult to translate into English from the French and doesn't cross-over well, but from the context it appeared Marie-Julie requested that one of her confessors or parish priests, Fr. Rabine, receive spiritual enlightenment about the divine favours she receives in addition to other graces, possibly, she asked that he also see the sun that she was allowed to see.

 
It seems this Fr. Rabine could not understand her or her spiritual mission and doubted and here she was asking this favor so he could believe. St. Thomas Aquinas explained he could not grant her request because if this priest did not have faith after seeing her ecstasies and the miracle of the stigmata, all other graces of enlightenment would be wasted on him, so to speak, even if he saw her mystical sun. This is my personal interpretation, not that of the "Friends of Marie-Julie Website". E.A.B.)


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