Fifth Day

" You are dead ; and your life is hid with Christ in God."*

St. Paul shows us the path that leads to the abyss. " You are dead." What does this mean but that the soul that aspires to dwell with God in the impregnable fortress of holy recollection must be separated, detached, and withdrawn from the thought of all else ? " QLuotidie morior."\ " I die daily : 1 master and renounce self more every day so that Christ may increase and be exalted. " Quotidie morior," I find my soul's joy (in will, not in emotion) j in all that sacrifices, destroys, abases self, that 1 may ■ give place to my divine Master. " I live now ; not I, but Christ liveth in me";J I desire to live my own life no longer, but to be transformed into | Christ, so that my life may be rather divine than human, and that the Father, bending towards me, may recognize the image of His beloved Son, in Whom He has set all His pleasure.