IWillBeLove

May my darkness serve to enlighten. .......................................................106 (Letter dated September 1, 1890, to Sister Agnes of Jesus) Profession.................................................................................................................................... 107 (Manuscript A) My very little resources...............................................................................................109 (Manuscript A) My weapon. ................................................................................................................................110 (Strewing flowers) VI. The light.......................................................................................................113 I have flown in the ways of love.......................................................................115 (Manuscript A) To receive and to love much................................................................................116 (Letter dated July 6, 1893, to Céline) I never get discouraged, I abandon myself........................................ 117 (Letter dated July 18, 1893, to Céline) Jesus wants humility of heart.............................................................................118 (Letter dated April 26, 1894, to Céline) Who made you so little?. ...........................................................................................120 (Inscription on a picture painted by Thérèse for Céline’s 25th birthday in 1894) Just for today............................................................................................................................121 (My Song for Today) Fill my little hand................................................................................................................ 122 (Manuscript C) Love alone is what attracts me.......................................................................... 123 (Manuscript A) Living on Love....................................................................................................................... 124 (Living on Love!) To me he gave his infinite mercy.................................................................. 126 (Manuscript A) How much Jesus desires to be loved........................................................ 127 (Manuscript A) I offer myself to your merciful love............................................................. 128 (Offering myself as a Holocaust Victim to the Merciful Love of the Good Lord) Banish all fear. ........................................................................................................................ 129 (Living on Love!) My imperfect love..............................................................................................................130 (Manuscript C) A brother priest......................................................................................................................131 (Letter dated October 17-21, 1895, to Father Bellière) I live on Love. .......................................................................................................................... 132 (Living on Love!) VII. The darkness..........................................................................................135 A first call, the arrival of the Bridegroom. .............................................137 (Manuscript C) The gloomy tunnel.......................................................................................................... 138 (Manuscript C) At the sinners’ table.........................................................................................................140 (Manuscript C) The night of nothingness .......................................................................................141 (Manuscript C) May he open heaven to the poor................................................................... 142 (Manuscript C) I love the night as much as the day. ........................................................... 143 (My joy!) I feel in my soul the courage of a papal guard.............................. 144 (Manuscript B) I understood............................................................................................................................. 145 (Manuscript B) My vocation is Love........................................................................................................ 147 (Manuscript B) Loving my littleness. ......................................................................................................148 (Letter dated September 17, 1896, to Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart) When spiritual riches make us unjust.....................................................149 (Letter dated September 17, 1896, to Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart) The poorer you are........................................................................................................... 150 (Christmas Letter, 1896, to Sister Geneviève) It’s what he does that I love....................................................................................151 (Yellow Notebook, May 27, 1897) I am not dying, I am entering into life.................................................... 152 (Letter dated June 9, 1897, to Father Bellière) I rejoice in my weaknesses.................................................................................... 153 (Yellow Notebook, July 5, 1897) I need mercy so much!............................................................................................... 154 (Yellow Notebook, July 29, 1897) Heaven is closed. ................................................................................................................ 155 (Yellow Notebook, August 8, 1897) A tiny little soul showered with graces................................................... 156 (Yellow Notebook, August 9, 1897) And the saints, where are they, then?.......................................................157 (Yellow Notebook, August 15, 1897) I can only say: Jesus!..................................................................................................... 158 (Last Words with Céline, August 6, 1897) I am afraid that I have feared.............................................................................. 159 (Yellow Notebook, September 11, 1897) If I had no faith.....................................................................................................................160 (Yellow Notebook, September 22, 1897) I love you...................................................................................................................................... 162 (Yellow Notebook, September 23, 1897) Never will I know how to die!............................................................................. 163 (Yellow Notebook, , September 29, 1897) I am not sorry for delivering myself up to Love..........................164 (Yellow Notebook, September 30, 1897) My God... I love you......................................................................................................... 165 (Yellow Notebook, September 30, 1897) Dying of Love. ........................................................................................................................166 (Living on Love!) VIII. The little way....................................................................................... 169 My mission will begin.................................................................................................. 170 (Yellow Notebook, July 17, 1897) Ripe plums................................................................................................................................... 171 (Yellow Notebook, July 13, 1897) The little way. .......................................................................................................................... 172 (Manuscript C) To be little. ................................................................................................................................... 174 (Yellow Notebook, August 6, 1897) Don’t think about what might happen to us....................................175 (Yellow Notebook, July 23, 1897) Raising oneself to God through trust and love............................. 176 (Manuscript C) Taking hold of Jesus by the heart................................................................. 178 (Letter dated July 12, 1896, to Léonie) Bearing sweetly with one’s imperfections......................................... 179 (Letter dated June 7, 1897, to Sister Geneviève) To love with the love of Jesus............................................................................180 (Manuscript C) How great is the power of prayer!................................................................. 182 (Manuscript C) Having shown me my littleness, my impotence....................... 183 (Manuscript C) I will come down................................................................................................................184 (Last words to Céline, September 26, 1897) Chronology. ..............................................................................................................................186 Sources of the textes......................................................................................................189 Art Credits. ...................................................................................................................................191

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