Dear Sisters,
I am very glad to enter in contact with some of you, Italian and maybe foreign ones, through Internet.
Do not forget that you are the brides of Christ, the dearest ones to His Heart, who he cast an amorous glance at and he fell in love with.
However, this must not make you put on airs, but help you to improve your humility, for the Spouse is humble and the Bride cannot be proud, troubled in her thoughts, wishes and behaviour.
A nun’s status is a perfect humbleness’ one. It is in humility that one tastes the Spouse’s intimacy!
Dearest Sisters, the devil, your enemy, often assaults you when you are discouraged, to make you do whatever he wants.
When you feel the weight of loneliness, think that the Spouse is very near you. The darkness’ spirit is jealous of pure love, in particular of yours.
You are strong pillars in the Church. You bear this Building erected on the rock if you are happy of having left the world, if you have no sorrow and regret for what you do not see and have anymore.
All these vanities are substituted, for you, by the Lord’s face. What else are you searching for? For a long time I have been dreaming a cloister, just because I was attracted by the power of the silence. Silence is a great maker of the soul, a means of mission for the brothers. It is in silence that Jesus talks with His Bride and overwhelms Her with kindness and gifts. Also in silence, she lives with Him the agony of Passion, moments of deep happiness and wonderful light, as for they are thirsty for knowing and perform.
Unfortunately, I could not answer the Lord’s call as you did, for He made me live the seclusion in the world. When I was thirty I lost my eye’s light and followed Him with my soul’s ones. Obedience sent me, like a pilgrim, throughout the world to give the Church new Priests and consecrated Souls.
During one’s life nothing is more essential than Love.
Love reads with God’s eyes and operates with His hands, travels by His Strength, and leads with His balance. Love reaches the most distant souls from God and turns them into meek sheep. Love makes one sing in light and in darkness.
Everything is Him; we are nothing, instead; we are poor seeds waiting for the sprout. He is Everything, can everything, even turn an afflicted nun into a very loyal Bride.
Maybe you think the world gives you more than the cloister. But all that the world gives is heavy. It is in silence that you taste the Lord’s voice, you answer His calls faithfully, hug Him at your heart, expending yourself in Him, with Him and for Him.
How good the Lord is!
Now it is not necessary to be opened the main door to walk with pillars like you, Sisters. Internet has led you into the world just to show you that we together must collaborate for the Christ’s Reign Advent.
The nun, leaving the world to walk towards sanctity must be detached from everything, above all from herself. She has to accept what the Abbess gives her in the Lord’s name: work, teaching, warnings, keeping in mind that, during any her occupation, she must not forget the Spouse, and leave Him alone. Jesus is great, but with His brides he is little and simple. A caress, a greeting, a very short pray, a burst of love are enough for Him. And You, Abbess, try to create in your community a Paradise. You represent the Spouse; imagine, therefore, your sisters as Angels. Treat them kindly, not to trouble their soul. Even though you think they need some admonitions, do it with charity and patience, as Jesus would do it.
Embrace the most needful nun, the less obedient one. So doing the community will be more united, the sun will shine even when it rains.
I am telling you this because, while visiting different cloisters, I met some Nuns crying:«The Abbess hates me, accuses me for faults not committed, treats me badly, gives me punishments I am not worth».
Unfortunately, sometimes, there could be a nun who does not love the Lord and sees dark where there is light; indeed, I can assure it. The Abbess has a great responsibility in front of God for the souls she was granted.
There must reign Love in a cloister. If it lacks it, there is tempest after tempest, hail and storm.
Where are saints from? It is needless to leave the world to enter into a cloister and loose the soul. There are great souls in the world too: consecrated persons living a life of intense sacrifice, also for your sanctification.
If anyone among you wishes to communicate with me through internet, I will be very happy to answer her. You can give me some suggestions as well.
We must pray if this is God’s will. Light does not arrive through the window, but it can arrive from every crack, that is not only through learned and pious persons, but also through an insignificant one like me.
God can need whatever tool to spread His accords, to make us understand we are all His sons and daughters, and must work all together to know Him better, love and serve Him.
