Ave Maria!— July’s Theme: Temptation
“Jesus wants to agitate you, shake you, beat you and sift you like the grain, so that your soul arrives at that cleanness and purity that He desires. Could the grain ever be placed in the granary if it is not free of every darnel or chaff? Could the linen ever be conserved in the master’s chest if it has not first become candid? And thus it must also be for the elect soul. I understand that the temptations seem to stain rather than to purify the soul; but it is not thus.”
