TODAY'S RREADING:

Margarite, the daughter of a Lord in Beaujolais, was the fourth prioress of the Chartreuse of Poleteins, where she died in 1310.
A precious manuscript, composed at La Grande Chartreuse a little after her death, has preserved for us a book of meditations in Latin, a “Mirror” relating some mystical visions of one of her sisters. One such account reads as follows”
“Not long ago she was in prayer after Matins, and she began to look in her book as she was accustomed to. As soon as she glanced at it, it seemed to her that the book opened itself; she had not even seen the exterior.
The inside of this book was like a beautiful mirror, and there were only two pages. Of what she saw in the book, I will only relate a small part, because I have neither the intelligence to understand it nor a mouth which is able to relate it. However, I will tell you some of it, if God gives me the grace.
In this book there was a beautiful place which was so large that the entire world was insignifcant in comparison. In this place a very glorious light appeared which was divided into three parts, as though in three persons, but there is no mouth of man capable of speaking of it.
From there came all conceivable goods. From there came the true wisdom by which all things are made and created. There was the power, the will of which all things obeyed. From there came such a great sweetness and such great comfort that the angels and the souls were satisfied by it to the point of not being able to desire anything else. From there came a scent so good that it drew to itself all of the virtues of the heavens. From there came such a great embrace of love that all of the loves of this world are nothing but a great bitterness in comparison to this love. From there came a joy so great that no heart of man is capable of imagining it.
When the angels and the saints look at the great beauty of our Lord and feel His goodness and great sweetness, their joy is so great that they cannot keep themselves from singing, but they create an entirely new song that is so sweet that it is a great melody. This sweet chant passes through all of the orders of angels and saints from the first to the last, and this chant is no sooner ended that they sing another entirely new one, and this singing continues without end.
The saints will be in their Creator just like fish are in the sea: they continually drink their fill without stopping, and without diminishing the water. Thus will it be with the saints, because they will drink and eat the great sweetness of God, and the more they receive, the more their hunger will increase. This sweetness can no more diminish than can the water of the sea. Because just as all rivers flow out of the sea and all return to it, so too the beauty of our Lord and His sweetness, even though they spread everywhere, always return to Him. And thus they can never diminish.
Even if the saints never thought of anything other than his great goodness, they could not perfectly conceive the very great love which caused the very good Lord to send his blessed Son to earth.
Now consider that there are other good things in him. He is all that can be thought of and desired in all his saints. This is the inscription that was on the first clasp of the book; it was written “Deis erit omnia in omnibus,” “God will be all in all.”
On the second clasp of the book was written “Mirabilis Deus in sanctis suis,” “God is marvelous in His saints”. No human intelligence can concceive how marvellous is God in His saints.