Juana Gratias is the recipient of this new message. It is another reflection that expresses life-giving maxims, an echo of the Gospel: If they curse you, bless them; if they calumniate you, keep silent and pray. It is also “Teresian”: God does not change, and patience gains everything.
Put in order your life: in prayer, seclusion and silence. The world and all its things are unworthy to occupy the temple of your soul. The servant of God goes on with his affairs in peace while the sea is shaking its surroundings. Suffer with patience. The tyrant will suffer more than the martyr.
To Juana Gratias: Gramat (France)
Es Cubells (Ibiza), 28 July 1857
J. M. J.
Long Live Jesus
Dear daughter: I received your letter through the mother prioress of Palma and I was very happy to receive it because I was anxious of our correspondence.
First of all, overlook the matters and drudgery of the world and let us go to the most important and not to forget the conditions of the direction, that is, the progress of your spiritual and inner relations with God. The rest “everything is passing, God alone does not change and patience gains everything.”
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