Showing posts with label St. Thomas Aquinas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Thomas Aquinas. Show all posts

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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Previous Post - #108 D - The 30th Birthday of Marie-Julie – Our Lord Shows her the Last Cross she will Endure Before Her Death – She is Shown Her Heavenly Crown - Marie-Julie Admits Why She Does Not Want to Go Straight to Heaven but to Purgatory



Wednesday, 13 September 2017

#68 St. Thomas Aquinas Returns - Sufferings Perfect - True Happiness - Peace Amidst Sufferings



St. Thomas Aquinas visits again - Suffering perfects a soul and unites it to God - Suffering a Little-Known Treasure - Suffering is Never Without Reward - Suffering with Inner Peace gives us True Happiness - God Tests through Sufferings to see if we are True Christians - Perfection a Great Virtue Beloved of God and Attained through Suffering -  How to Be Peaceful Amidst the Cross -


Ecstasy August 8, 1878

“I wish you peace, I wish that peace be in your soul in your heart, in your mind.”

Marie-Julie: “It's St. Thomas Aquinas, He is radiant with glory at the foot of the Cross. He
said to me:

'It is I who come to say a word on behalf of the Lord, at the entrance of your Holy Novitiate. 

God created us to love Him and serve Him. All happiness is to love God, and all the joy you taste in the love of God, this is the peace one experiences. Our Lord gives us His goods so generously that there is no heart on earth able to thank Him as He desires, what the Divine Master ... (missing text here?) 

Suffering perfects us and unites us to our Beloved. Our Lord watches over us with such kindness and generosity, He wants our happiness, He wants to give us His rich rewards.  Let us rejoice in the suffering on this earth, that our heart beats with joy, happiness and gratitude! Suffering is a little-known Treasure. If known, this Treasure would also become for us an immense source of comfort, happiness and joy. 

God is pleased to test us on earth, because he wants to see if we are true Christians ...
Our Lord never gives suffering or pains without rewards. When we have trouble on earth, we must always keep a joyful heart of recognition (of this). Suffering proves (or tests) peace and peace proves happiness. All the happiness consists in love of Our Lord and His Cross. We must suffer with a sweet and holy patience, because it is in suffering that is perfection. 

Perfection is an eminent virtue, a virtue that is pleasing to God ... The higher the flood of persecutions pass over us, the more God will love us and God will draw His Glory in our
pains ..
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Our Cross of the earth is enriched with diamonds and pearls because we bear no irritation, because we carry them with calm, because we want only good for those who wish us harm. This thought, is it not capable to give courage to the soul?


Our souls are such a great price and are so dear to the eyes of God He loves them with a tenderness and kindness that can not be explained here below. Our adorable Lord, by creating our souls, made them with all His love, all His Goodness, but He wants our souls to love Him in return and that they give thanks for all the benefits He gives them in this life. .. . 


Walk with courage, do not worry about anything! Love God, serve Him faithfully. Walk in the way of the Cross with certainty, it is the Way of the Chosen, the Royal Way! I would still live on earth to suffer for the glory of my God!”

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Wednesday, 6 September 2017

#63 St. Thomas Aquinas - HEAVEN CANNOT BE ENTERED WITHOUT THE CROSS

 
St.Thomas Aquinas  appears to Marie-Julie Jahenny, prepares her for the 'Holy Novitiate' of the Cross. HEAVEN CANNOT BE GAINED WITHOUT THE CROSS.

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(July 4, 1878)

“The peace of the Lord be in your soul, may that Peace be entirely within you, I am St. Thomas
Aquinas.”

Marie-Julie: “Oh! Good Saint, I've known you long time!”

St. Thomas: “I come from the good Jesus before the entry of the Holy Novitiate. I see with pleasure the great road of the Cross open.  Know for certain that there is nothing but suffering, humiliations and surrendering (of the will) that open this great way of perfection.


(St. Thomas): NO ONE WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WHO HAS NOT  SUFFERED AND CARRIED HIS CROSS. We must carry the cross and suffer with Jesus. IT IS A NECESSITY ... The sufferings on earth are the first heaven of the soul; after the soul passes this paradise of tests, God opens another heaven when it sees Him, to worship and love Him more. It is necessary that the soul is completely purified and the mind is disengaged of all human thoughts, all love of the earth.

To enter the great way perfect, it is absolutely necessary to be tried, humiliated on the earth. THIS IS THE CLEARIST PROOF THAT GOD GIVE HIS TRUE FRIENDS TO DISTINGUISH THEM AND TO MAKE THEM HIS TRUE ADOPTED CHILDREN.

In the path of sublime elevation, the most certain mark of truth is peace of soul, and at the same time, peace in the continuously rebellious part of the human heart. Even if while on earth we would all have all the tests of St. Paul and other saints who rose to the highest levels of perfection, all these trials, all the storms of the enemy, we would not lose this peace of soul ...

IF GOD LEFT US A LIFETIME OF ENJOYMENT, WITHOUT TEMPTATION, WITHOUT TESTS, we would have NO MERIT ~ WE WOULD NOT BE THE TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD.

Sometimes God allows trials, pains upon pains; it is then that our soul makes rapid progress towards divine perfection. The test is a safeguard and also a light and a defence for the soul ...”

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Notes: St. Thomas is often called the 'Angelic Doctor' born at Roccasecca near Aquina, Naples c. 1226, he was educated by the Bendictines at Montecassino. He joined the then recently founded Dominicans, studied and recived his doctorate of theology in Paris, and from then taught that subject in Paris (1252-1262), Orvieto (1261-1264), Rome (1265-1267), Viterbo (1268), back to Paris (1269-71) and Naples (1272-1274). He died at Fossanova near Rome on his way to the Council of Lyons. Canonized in 1323 and declared Doctor of the Church in 1567, and later patron saint of Catholic universities and centres of study in 1880. He is the acknowledged prince of Catholic theologians, and his work 'Summa Theologica' is unrivalled as an authority in that branch of sacred learning. He was also a gifted poet, his hymns for the feast of Corpus Christi still being popular classical favourites in liturgical and extra-liturgical functions.

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