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Tuesday, 3 October 2017

#70 St. John-Francis Regis - Sufferings of the Cross Worthy of Holy Envy –– the Mortal Danger of Slander - Unless God Intervenes Slanderers Will be Lost



St. John-Francis Regis visits Marie-Julie Jahenny – Sufferings of the Cross in these evil times Worthy of Holy Envy – Slanderers: how they behave – the Mortal Danger of Slander - Unless God Intervenes Slanderers Will be Lost

Ecstasy August 13, 1878

I have come to give a word on behalf of God at the entry of your Holy Novitiate. We are at the foot of the Cross, and we wait and we hope to go into our sweet and Blessed Country.


What is this earth, what is suffering in comparison with endless happiness? Our life on earth is short and Our Lord has measured our years. Let us commence, it is time to live for God and for Heaven.


If the adorable Lord descended now, upon a bright cloud to judge and condemn, how would He find any just in this fair land of merit? It is frightening! ... Today, what injustice! What hidden infamies! What veiled slander! How do they persevere, those souls who commit them?

This is how they do it.

First they try to stifle remorse, but it follows them everywhere. In conversations, in their companies, their words are beautiful, clear as glass. But the reasoning of the soul, at the bottom of their interior, no one hears and it is frightening. The soul moans, cries, suffers, because it is the only thing in these men that belongs to the Sovereign Good. (I.e. the rest of these sinners has become completely evil in thought, word and deed.)


Slander is like a worm, it eats into the soul of the most beautiful and chaste virtues, and then, after being eaten whole, the soul can not become master because it is opposed by the evil human mind, by human nature so angry and so cruel. The soul can no longer prevail, and if God does not come to its aid, it is forever doomed …


Wait with patience! The time of the Lord is open to Heaven. But what a surprise for the headstrong! (The stubborn sinners who refuse to repent.) But what joy for the few (i.e. the righteous that suffer on earth) that I envy their position on earth, because I would have the honour to suffer for my God! Heaven, I come to their aid!

How admirable is the way of the Cross! It is worthy of envy!



How great are its merits! O Royal Way! Vive la Croix, the treasure of the true chosen ones ...”


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Notes:

St. Johan-Francis Regis was born at Font-Couverte in the diocese of Narbonne in Langedoc, France. At the age of eighteen he entered the Society of Jesus at Béziers, was ordained in 1631, and from that moment knew no rest spending himself in preaching the Gospel to the uneducated farmers of Languedoc and Auvergne, providing for prisoners and fallen women, establishing confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament, and effecting everywhere numerous conversions among the Protestant Huguenots. He died while preaching a mission on December 30, 1640, and was canonized in 1737. (New feast day June 16, traditional feast day December 31.). 

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