"...profound
reverence ... lose yourself in ... pure faith..."
May that divine fire, which Jesus came
to light on earth, always burn in our hearts...That great God of Majesty, who with so much gentleness
has drawn your soul to a knowledge of his divine mysteries by means of holy
prayer, allows you to learn by means of his most unworthy minister that it is
his Holy Will that you lose yourself more and more in the immense sea of his
divinity with a continual exercise of love...by imitating faithfully his high
virtues, especially that profound humility and annihilation in all his holy
actions that he taught so divinely... holy annihilation produces a great love of
suffering, of staying on the cross with Jesus ... let it be your practice to
remain in your true nothingness... with a profound reverence, enter into the
pure Heart of Jesus and, there, lose yourself in that immense sea of
divinity in pure faith... sacred darkness of Holy Faith is illuminated by
the resplendent ray of the Divinity, which makes it brighter than the sun.
~Paul of the Cross to Agnes Grazi (Grazi's
103rd letter
on August 4, 1740 in Vol. 1 on Page 288 for Paul's Letter 247)