Ave Maria Meditations
“I ought to ascribe my aridity to my lack of fervor and fidelity. I ought to be miserable at constantly falling to sleep during my prayers and thanksgivings. Oh well. I do not break my heart about it I think how little children are just as pleasing to their parents when they are asleep as when they are awake. I remember that our Lord ‘knoweth our frame. He remembers that we are but dust’.
In all my relations with Jesus, I feel nothing. Aridity and drowsiness! As my Well-Beloved love it wants to sleep, I should not hinder Him. I am glad to see He does not treat me like a stranger, that He treats me without ceremony; for, I can assure you, He does not trouble Himself to make conversation.”
“Imitate the Eucharist and you will become a saint.”
St. Therese of Lisieux
