“God looked over the world for an empty heart
– a heart that was empty like a flute
on which He could pipe a tune ...
and the emptiest heart He could find
and the emptiest heart He could find
was the heart of a lady.
Since there was no self there,
Since there was no self there,
He filled it with His Very Self.”
- Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God (1944)
- Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God (1944)
"In Advent Christ rested in Mary
still, silent, helpless, utterly dependent.
The Creator trusted Himself to His creature.
...This was a foreshadowing
of what the Incarnation would mean for us;
for in us too, Christ rests as He rested in Mary.
From the moment
when the Christ life is conceived in us,
our life is intended for one thing,
the expression of His love,
His love for God and for the world.
... We must allow the Christ life
to grow in us in rest.
Our whole being must fold
upon Christ's rest in us,
as the earth folds upon the seed."
Caryll Houselander
The Passion of the Infant Christ
(London: Sheed and Ward, 1949)
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Invite someone to holy Mass -
to a discovery or a return to the sacramental life!
It will be the gift that keeps on giving!
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