Ave Maria!— August’s Theme: Spiritual Aridity
“The state of the soul placed in interior straits is sad, and truly it seems to us that it is all over for us, and that, in the end, the Lord has withdrawn from us because He is tired of putting up with us. Meanwhile, things are quite different. […] the Lord […] is always close to us, rather, He is within us and He invisibly animates us to sustain the battle.”
