| 180 +During Advent, a great
yearning for God arose in my soul. My spirit rushed toward God with all its
might During that time, the Lord gave me much light to know His
attributes.
The first attribute which the Lord gave me to know
is His holiness. His holiness is so great that all the Powers and Virtues
tremble before Him. The pure spirits veil their faces and lose themselves
in unending adoration, and with one single word they express the highest
form of adoration; that is Holy... The holiness of God is poured out upon
the Church of God and upon every living soul in it, but not in the same degree.
There are souls who are completely penetrated by God, and there are those
who are barely alive.
The second kind of knowledge which the Lord granted
me concerns His justice. His justice is so great and penetrating that it
reaches deep into the heart of things, and all things stand before Him in
naked truth, and nothing can withstand Him.
The third attribute is love and mercy. And I understood
that the greatest attribute is love and mercy. It unites the creature with
the Creator. This immense love and abyss of mercy are made known in the
Incarnation of the Word and in the Redemption [of humanity], and it is here
that 1 saw this as the greatest of all God's attributes. |
