Author: Communications Asian Presence

“Let us review our garden: we are in the month of May: let us search for the orange tree, let us see if it is in bloom…Do you hope? Will you be saved?

“Faith makes the soul ascend and elevates it to God; it ascends rectified by the contemplation of the eternal truth; it looks at it and, in its presence, covers its face and bows its head. God, who is infinitely perfect, infinitely beautiful, attracts and draws the spiritual sight of the soul; and the immense fragrance of his attributes and perfections, makes the human heart feel and experience the kind influence of his presence” (Francisco Palau OCD)

“If you have charity, if you love what God loves, if you want what God wants, you can do much, very much, for the welfare of others. You must do for others what is within your means” (Francisco Palau OCD)

“If you have charity, mercy is one of her daughters, and will be with you: and if there is mercy in you, you will suffer for all those things and reason for which Jesus and Mary, his most blessed Mother, suffered. You will feel sorrow and compassion for the very serious moral evils that afflict our holy mother the Church; and taking as your own the miseries and spiritual needs of the souls, you will sacrifice for them” (Francisco Palau OCD)

“Have you put in order the love of yourself and the many things that move around you? Reflect upon it well. If you want order in your love for creatures, first put in order your love for God” (Francisco Palau OCD)