The masters of the Spiritual Life say that the most perfect state of Our Lord’s life is the Risen Life. To tend towards this state, which is the highest, is the most difficult but since a little of every state of Our Lord’s life must be reproduced in our souls, - there must be something of the Risen Life as well since we always are tending towards the resurrection. When we receive Jesus Christ into our hearts, it is His resurrected Humanity which is communicated to our flesh, it is His glorious Humanity which is placed on our lips in order to enter into the interior of our body”.
Let us enter into this spirit of Resurrection: a spirit ever more courageous and strong, a spirit which goes beyond difficulties, not by rejecting them, but rather by recognising in them the price of eternity. To the spirit of the world, contradictions, suffering and difficulties seem to be an obstacle, but to the spirit of eternity, they are ways to perfection; they are the chisel and hammer by which the portrait of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who must be formed in us, is printed and engraved in our heart.
St Marie Eugenie, Chapter of 20 April 1879
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