"It is important in a highest way that the soul practice so much Love, so that, consuming self quickly, one does not stop entirely below but reaches solicitously to see face to face his God." -St. John of the Cross

"It is not only the expression of the sweetest of all the dreams: it is a divine reality; it is the expression of a total mystery of likeness and of union; it is the name which in the morning of our consecration the Church pronounces upon us: Veni Sponsa Christi!

It is necessary to live one’s life of a spouse! How many things this name evokes of love given and received, of intimacy, of fidelity, of absolute dedication!

To be spouse means to abandon one’s self as He has abandoned Himself; it means to be sacrificed like Him, by Him, for Him. It means that Christ made Himself totally ours and we became totally His.

To be spouse means to have all the rights on His Heart. It is a heart to heart for all the life. It is to live with…always with. It is to rest totally in Him, and to allow Him to rest in our soul.

It is not to know other than to love; to love adoring, repairing, praying, asking, forgetting self, to love always, under all its forms.

“To be Spouse” is to have the eyes in His eyes, the thought enchanted by Him, the heart all in love, all invaded, as if out of self and passed in Him, the soul full of His soul, full of His prayer, all her being captivated and given.

It is to fix Him always with a glance, to catch the least sign and desire; it is to enter in all of His joys, to share all His sadness. It means to be fruitful, coredemptrix, to generate souls to grace, to multiply the adoptive children of the Father, the redeemed by the Christ, the co-heirs of His glory.

Lastly to be taken for spouse, for mystical spouse, means to have the heart enraptured in a certain way that forgetting all the distance, the WORD is poured in the soul like in the bosom of the Father, with the same ecstasy of infinite love. It means that the Father, the Word and the Spirit invade the soul, deify it, consume it in one for love. It means the matrimony, the stable state, because it is the indissoluble union of the will and of the hearts. And God said: Let us make him a companion similar to him. They will be two in one...”.

COMMENTARY:

It is not only the expression of the sweetest of all the dreams: it is a divine reality; it is the expression of all a mystery of likeness and of union; it is the name which in the morning of our consecration the Church pronounces upon us: Veni Sponsa Christi!

Oh blessed soul, known and chosen from eternity by that God who, from eternity, has loved you of an infinite love, hear the words which your Holy Mother, the Church, loves to whisper to you with ineffable joy and ecstasy of infinite love, at the dawn of your consecration: Veni Sponsa Christi, Veni Sponsa, Veni! Do you understand, chosen soul, do you understand? Maybe the pure joy of the Spirit darkens the intellect, maybe the splendid light of truth blinds the eye of the mind, but it is so: you are Spouse of Christ in eternity, you are forever enchained to His love! You, small creature, espoused to the Creator, you, the last among the living, exulted to a royal dignity; you, simple nothing, elevated to the eternal Wedding with the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the Most High, the Eternal Love. No, it is not only the sweetest of all the dreams, it is a divine reality: It is one of those mysteries which “human eye cannot see nor human ear understand” because prepared by God only for few chosen souls, for those, like you, chosen to be in eternity His Spouses.

Blessed soul, this is a wonderful mystery of likeness and of union because it is a mystery of love and love cannot do anything than to unite indissolubly. For love, the lover makes herself like the beloved, for love she wants to be what He wants, for love she wants to be His up to the point of becoming one with Him. From likeness to union: this is the way of love which the Holy Mother Church sweetly shows to you when in the deepest of your consecrated soul repeats to you: Veni Sponsa Christi!...to be continued