Ave Maria!— August’s Theme: Spiritual Aridity
“You are not alone in your trial, which is a true agony, but well accompanied: otherwise, how could you want that which the soul flees from, and frighten yourself for not being able to pronounce the fiat!? How could you want to love the highest good? How could you fear to offend? Yes, you, too, say always to the most sweet Lord: I want to live dying, as long as from death comes life, and helps life to rise from the dead.”
