Lectio et Oratio

Episode 84 -- Come Be My Light -- ch 9.4 -- Absolute Surrender to God’s Holy Will

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Episode 83 -- Come Be My Light ch 9.3 -- I Can Take a Part of His Suffering

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Episode 82 -- Come Be My Light ch 9.2 -- God Will Fill What He Has Emptied

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Episode 81 -- Come Be My Light ch 9.1 -- My Deepest Secret

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Episode 80 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.17 -- Oasis in the Desert

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Episode 79 -- Come be My Light ch 8.16 -- The Smile is a Big Cloak

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Episode 78 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.15 -- The Darkness is Becoming Greater

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Episode 77 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.14 -- I offered . . . to pass even Eternity in this Terrible Suffering

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Episode 75 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.12 -- Happy to Be Nobody Even to God

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Episode 74 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.11 -- The Dark Holes -There Our Lord is Always Really Present

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Episode 73 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.10 -- To Smile At God

What other advice did the Archbishop give Mother?

In dealing with her sense of God's absence, her sense that He did not want her, her sense of her own rejection, the Archbishop encouraged Mother to be a cheerful giver. He encouraged her to smile. But he also helped her see the ways in which this suffering caused a radical purification of her soul and prepared her and others for greater union with God.

Episode 72 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.9 -- I Will Satiate Thy Thirst for Souls

When did the Archbishop begin to understand Mother's interior darkness?

In February 1956, Archbishop P

Episode 71 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.8 -- Only that Blind Faith That Carries Me Through

We read about the monthly reports Mother had to write to the Archbishop. We read about the permissions she kept having to ask for from the Archbishop, a successor of the Apostles. How we need faith in Christ's union with His Church. How we must pray to be obedient like Christ was, not only to his heavenly Father, but to Joseph and Mary on earth!

Episode 70 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.7 -- Offer Each other to Christ for Souls

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Episode 69 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.6 -- A Deep Loneliness in My Heart

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Episode 68 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.5 -- Spouse of Jesus Crucified

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Episode 67 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.4 -- My Soul Remains in Deep Darkness

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Episode 66 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.3 -- Many a Soul Has Been Brought Back to God

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Episode 65 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.2 -- I have Tried to Refuse Nothing to God

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Episode 64 -- Come Be My Light ch 8.1 -- Darkness Disclosed

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