Corrine   Week 6    pg. 106-133

In the November 1911 entry, after Elisabeth entered a nursing home and had a tumor removed, she said, “To suffer seems to be my true vocation and the interior call of God in my soul. Suffering enables me to do the work of reparation; to obtain, I hope, the great graces I desire so much for my dear souls, for all souls. Suffering is the reply to my abandonment of myself to the divine Master for my dear ones, for souls, and for the Church.”  She says that if her prayers are heard no suffering will have been too great and she would sing thanks.  She is not complaining about her suffering but sees the good in it….

Elisabeth asks God to “use all this ill for the good of everyone.”

Wouldn’t this be an accomplishment!    Pg. 117  “May my grief and supernatural joy, my whole life and even my death proclaim the greatness of divine love, the holiness of the Church, the tenderness and sweetness of the Heart of Jesus, the existence and the beauty of the supernatural life, the reality of our Christian hopes.”

Elisabeth keeps mentioning dealing with her suffering for reparation.  Sadly, I forget the reparation part.  Must be because I do not love enough and do not realize the pain my sins cause.  I have a long ways to go!

Pg. 121 She says she offers Him, each morning, all that will happen that day so that “everything that later happens is gathered up by our good God, and nothing is lost…”

She asked Jesus for the virtues of purity of heart, gentleness, patience, obedience to God,

humility, mortification, spiritual poverty.  That  is an examination of conscience right there.

Elisabeth will be ready for whatever God sends her…., “Here I am, Lord, ready to do Thy will” she said.

Pg. 132 She calls an apostolate of prayer and suffering a blessed vocation of hers.  She says she will love “the cross of Jesus, carrying it daily, always placing in the divine Heart my burden of pains, privations, and weaknesses!”

I must keep developing my relationship with Jesus so that I am ready for those last moments before eternity.   Oh, there are so many distractions!  I wonder how Jesus dealt with the distractions.