struck by the celestial expression of her countenance. She was sewing with alacrity yet seemed lost in profound contemplation.
"Of what are you thinking?" asked the young Sister. "I am meditating on the Pater," she replied. "It is so sweet to call the good God our Father." And tears shone in her eyes.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XII
I do not well see what more I shall
have in Heaven than now, she once said.
I shall see the good God, it is true; but
as to being with Him, I am wholly with
Him already upon earth.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XII
A living flame of Divine Love consumed
her.
"A few days after my oblation to God's Merciful Love," she relates, "I had commenced in the Choir the Way of the Cross, when I felt myself suddenly wounded by a dart of fire so ardent that I thought I must die. I know not how