Ave Maria!— November’s Theme: Holiness
‘such souls turn their gaze continually towards the heavenly homeland. They are constantly longing to depart from this exile so as to be united with Jesus Christ in the heavenly nuptials. They hasten the arrival of this hour with groans and sighs, with prayers and ardent longing, but since God does not always receive their aspirations in this manner which they desire and understand (for inscrutable reasons which it is not given to miserable mortals like ourselves to fathom) they bear the weight of this present life for the sole purpose of pleasing Jesus in this matter also.?
