This morning we met with Cardinal Stafford at the Pontifical Council for the Laity at Palazzo San Calisto. From there we went to Santa Maria della Scala, and ended the day at Santa Maria in Trastevere.
This morning, Cardinal Stafford spoke to us about the spirituality of St. John of the Cross, and his assent to faith. He spoke to us of suffering for the love of Christ, which reminded us of Msgr. Osborne who first gave us the idea that suffering is the only road to Heaven. Each of us took our own thoughts and graces from this talk. What you now read is from the heart of one of us. Cardinal Stafford spoke of the need for beauty to inundate our lives, in order to find God, and he challenged us to find the meaning of faith in our everyday experiences.
At Santa Maria della Scala, we were escorted into a small chapel where we celebrated mass. This chapel contained the relic of the right foot of St. Teresa of Avila!! Cardinal Van Thuan is also buried there.
We enjoyed Pranzo with the Cardinal at the Domus where we talked about Religious Life and the Church in the United States.
In the evening, we began our conferences with Fr. Bechina, who is a member of Das Werk and works at the Congregation for Education. He gave us an excellent talk, and again, you are at the mercy of two writers! Father reminded us that when we love someone, we are sensitive to them. This means that we should be sensitive to the way Our Lord communicates and reveals Himself to us in the day to day. We have expectations of how we want Him to reveal Himself to us, yet, it is better for us to learn to find Him in the daily visitations of His will revealed in the ordinary circumstances of life.
Tomorrow we will meet with you at the Vatican crypt for Mass. See you there as the Body of Christ together at the altar of God.
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