'The sixth weapon is the memory of the goods of
paradise which are prepared for those who lawfully struggle by
abandoning all the vain pleasures of the present life in accord with the
saying of the most holy doctor Saint Augustine that it is impossible to
enjoy present goods and future ones too. So, dear sisters, be content
not to have in this world any pleasure or any beloved, and do not grow
tired of denying your own will, remembering what our patriarch St.
Francis said, that is, that the most excellent and greatest gift that
God's servant can receive from God in this world is to conquer himself
by denying his own will. So he said: "So great is the good that I behold
/ that every wound is beloved by me," in order to show how, through the
memory of eternal things, he rejoiced in suffering evil.'
Ecclesiasticus 43:1
The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with its glorious shew.
The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with its glorious shew.
