Ecstasy
of October 29, 1878
“I
am Saint Distérique, bishop and martyr for the cause of the
Holy Religion, and for supporting the Holy Church, Mother of us all.
I was struck hard on all parts of the body ... I was then laid on a
rack and struck again terribly. I received like Our Lord the blow of
the spear from the hands of my tormentors. I was left lying in my
blood on the pavement waiting for some kind souls to give burial to
my body …
Now,
a word on behalf of Our Lord.
Oh!
How the love of Our Lord is strong! How sweet it is, when you taste
It with submission. Love gives life to souls. Love adorns the heart
with the Divine warmth and delectable tenderness. What can make you
fear when you have the love of Christ? ... But know this well, on the
earth all men suffer. They are overwhelmed with pain and sorrow. But
the merits of this portion is so great, so perfect and noble in the
eyes of the Good Lord! It is why He visits us lovingly with His pains
and His sorrows when we are agreeable (open) to Him ...
On
earth there are souls who enjoy the happiness of consolation, there
are others that seem abandoned and are not subject to any charity, it
seems. Our Lord regards this contempt as a great and culpable
indignity because He Himself loves all souls, because to Him they are
all infinitely precious. (i.e. it is an indignity againt the virtue of charity to not be a source of Christian comfort). Our Lord also wants, sometimes, wishes
Himself to be the consoling Father of these souls. That is why He
wants them to have no consolation, no assurance, no light from men. (i.e. sometimes souls are allowed to be left with no earthly consolation because God Himself wishes to be their consolation.)
Our
adorable Lord has all power, all grandness. He can do whatever He
wants and everything He does is very powerful. All men together are
unable to make the smallest part of what God does Himself. They seem
to touch upon it but they are very, very far. That is why all that
God made, everything that He commands is resistant to men and will
resist them by a powerful force. However, there is to be found on the
earth souls who seem to want to blame God and want to order Him
(around)! What is the word of man, the creature? It is a breath
before the wind ... Our adorable Lord needs neither advice nor
powers, nor permission of creatures, to do what He wants. This is why
we must submit and without passing
judgement. (i.e submit to His will in all things). God does what He wants ... All who suffer for the
glory of His name will one day be richly rewarded and recompensed
...”
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Note:
St. Distérique apparently is a previously unknown saint. There are
no details about his life in the general biographies of the saints,
and Internet searches have not turned up anything, including searches
with exchanged letters and attempts to Latinize the name.
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