Mother
Isabelle de Clermont-Tonnerre,
founder of the Sisters of the Assumption Orantes,
in 1916
in the garden,
community,
11 Rue Desbordes Valmore
75016 PARIS
On 6 March, we celebrate
On 6 March, we celebrate
the 163 anniversary of his birth
(March 6, 1849
to Glisolles in Eure).
Some excerpts from his teachings:
Prayer is not an exercise set: Prayer is our whole life ... It must lead to what is called "the glance." Then the soul lives with God, lives near him, and God lives in it, it is a prayer, a contemplation interrupted ...
Instruction Chapter, July 24, 1920
We come gradually into prayer not to somehow make one mind with God. It is the effect that prayer should produce in the soul. That our soul has no other desire than that which God gives him. We must always adhere to the thought of God in prayer. Prayer is like a communion in which our Lord makes us like Him, provided we are properly disposed. It is not enough to stand before God to his prayer, he must go with the desire to learn his duty. It is a study of Jesus Christ. You must see how did Jesus Christ what were her feelings, leading us by Him, to conform our thoughts, our feelings, our words to his. It was under the influence of the Holy Spirit that this should happen ...
There are two forms of God's presence : the form of love for our Lord , a form of tenderness, the union of the Bridegroom with the wife who says she wants to share his life, his love mysteries, deepen so that his life like his to show our Lord that He came not in vain on earth. This presence of God is quite natural to think that religious Him with great love. There is a another form of the presence of God is that of recognizing the rights of God over us. All God's rights are totally ignored in the world now. We have no right to disregard them, we must be careful of the rights of God. In the beginning, Saint Michel defended the rights of God against the rebel angels. We must be on earth, the angels who defend the rights of God at the cost of our efforts, our labors, our sacrifices, fulfilling our duties. For the short time we have very little devotion to duty: what to do, what to avoid, the general rules established by God. We protest against the revolt of the universe to God. We will do our fidelity to duty. We have duties of state, all our practices are not mandatory under pain of sin. There is a duty status is recognition of the rights of God over us ...
Instruction Chapter, September 25, 1919.
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