Down the scented country road, the bells of the little white church rang out the thousand alleluias of an Easter morning, like a choir of children unexpectedly released from school. There was joy in the world, for love had risen from the dead.
Are we part of that joy? Do we remember how to be joyous? Or have we lost joy, along with so much else? Perhaps it is because we have lost simplicity.
The virtue needed above all others today is simplicity, that holy, childlike, joyous simplicity that walks in humble, strong faith, that sees clearly, acts resolutely, and lives in love. We have become too complex to live with ourselves, or our neighbors or even with God.
Grace in Every Season (April 13)
Therefore, no longer fix your attention on time; do not be even reckoning on the time of my triumph. Live simply in surrender and trust, like my little children, in my Immaculate Heart.”
Blue Book #74 r