Fredens forkynnere
Hvor fagre er deres føtter som melder fred, forkynner frelse og roper til Sion: ‘Din Gud er hersker!’ (Jes 52,7)
Slik synger vi på høytiden for vår grunnlegger, den hellige Dominikus.
Ja, hvor inderlig vi lengter etter føtter som forter seg med budskap om fred, etter nyheter om våpenhvile, forhandlinger og forsoning, etter frelse for de sultende og sårede, for fryktsomme og flyktninger og frihetsberøvede.
Hvor intenst ber vi ikke om at Guds rike skal komme, at vår Gud skal være hersker?
On one occasion, praying even more fervently than usual, she used the words of the Prophet: «Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew a right spirit within me,» intending in this way to ask the Lord particularly to take from her completely her own heart and her own will. His answer was to fortify her resolution by a vision. Coming to her in the now accustomed way, he seemed to open her left side, take out her heart, and carry it away. the vision was so realistic, and so confirmed by the evidence of her own physical condition, that when she went to confession afterwards she told her confessor that she no longer had a heart within her breast. He only laughed at this, and then seriously took her to task for saying such a thing. But she emphatically repeated it, saying: «It is a fact, Father. As far as I can judge from what I feel in my body, I seem no longer to have any heart in it. Our Lord appeared to me, opened my left side, took out my heart, and went away with it.» But her confessor brusquely said she could not possibly live without her heart. To this she replied that «no thing is impossible with God,» and that she was herself convincd that her heart was now missing. And in the days that followed she said several times over that she was living now without her heart.
