Secret Harbour - Portus Secretioris: Our Lord's Desire for Your Soul

17 August 2010

Our Lord's Desire for Your Soul

Alas, My beloved, alas My spouse; I stand desiring you, and waiting for you; I wish that you would return to Me with all your heart, and forsaking all vanities, apply yourself wholly to devotion, and give yourself daily to humility; that I might then vouchsafe to talk with you in more familiar sort, and rejoice your mind with far better and purer delights than those you have lain drowned.

I do not require a multitude of works by your hands, but a chaste, faithful and pure heart, which may seek to please Me, and not delight itself. I desire a sincere love and a fervent devotion, that is, a ready and forward will to honour and obey Me, and a sincere and pure intention in performing the things that I command. I wish that your heart should be clear and free of any other love, and if you would present it to Me in this way, I would endow you with greater consolations and far more excellent blessings, than you either dare to presume to desire or are able to conceive.

I am a husband that is bashful, and therefore will never come to you, when I see you busied with other matters altogether vain and unprofitable. When I come I must find you alone, for I stand knocking at your door, being very weak and quaking for cold, even in the same form that I carried, when I was unloosed from the pillar where I was bound, scourged and wounded for your sake. And this I do, that I may make an impression of Myself in your mind, wounded as I was, and that you, embracing Me with the arms of your love, I may unite you unto Me, and inflame you with My Wounds, that still burn with the fervent heat of that charity which I bear towards you.

Oh, if you would love Me as you ought to do, would you not both quickly draw Me into your heart, and also before I came, with a most desirous will, attend and long for My coming; and would you not then clothe the naked, and offer fire to warm him that is cold, that you might be worthy to receive again the chaste embracing of My love, and to enjoy the sweet taste of My Spirit?

~ Alloquia Iesu Christi ad Animam Fidelem, by Lanspergius ~

(Latin)
Credo firmiter in Patrem et Filium et Spiritum Sanctum: Patrem ingenitum, Filium unigenitum, Spiritum Sanctum ex utroque procedentem; et has tres Personas unum Deum.

Credo quod idem Dei Filius conceptus sit de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine. Credo quod Virgo castissima fuerat ante partum, virgo in partu, et post partum virgo in æternum permansit. Credo quod idem Dei Filius conceptus sit inter homines ut verus homo sine peccato. Credo quod idem Dei Filius invidiose captus est a Iudæis, injuriose tractatus, injuste ligatus, consputus, flagellatus, mortuus, sepultus. Descendit ad inferos, ut captivos suos inde liberaret. Descendit propter redemptio nem nostram, et resurrexit, ascendit ad cœlos, inde venturus judicare vivos et mortuos.

Credo Sacramenta quæ catholica credit et veneratur Ecclesia, et nominatim quod consecratur in altari verum Corpus esse, veram Carnem et verum Sanguinem Domini nostri Iesu Christi, quem et nos accipimus in remissionem peccatorum nostrorum, in spem salutis æternæ. Credo carnis resurrectionem, vitam æternam.

Confiteor et credo sanctam atque ineffabilem Trinitatem, Patrem et Filium et Spiritum Sanctum, unum Deum naturalem, unius substantiæ, unius naturæ, unius maiestatis atque virtutis. Et Patrem quidem non genitum, non creatum, sed ingenitum profitemur. Ipse Pater a nullo originem ducit, ex quo et Filius nativitatem, et Spiritus Sanctus processionem accepit. Fons ipse igitur et origo est totius Divinitatis. Ipse quoque Pater, essentia quidem ineffabilis, substantia sua Filium genuit ineffabiliter, nec tamen aliud quam quod ipse est genuit, Deus Deum, lux lucem. Ab Ipso ergo est omnis paternitas in cœlo et in terra. Amen.

(English)
I firmly believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: the Father unbegotten, the only begotten Son, the Holy Spirit proceeding from them both; and I believe that these three Persons are but one God.

I believe that the same Son of God was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary. I believe that the Virgin was chaste before she bore her Child, that she remained a Virgin while she bore her Child, and continued a Virgin ever after. I believe that the same Son of God was conceived among men, a true Man with no sin. I believe the same Son of God was captured by the hatred of some of the Jews who did not believe, was bound unjustly, covered with spittle, and scourged. I believe that He died, was buried, and descended into hell to free those of His who were held there. He descended for our redemption, He rose again, He ascended into heaven, and from there He will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe also in the sacraments that the Church believes and holds in reverence, and especially that what has been consecrated on the altar is the true Flesh and the true Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which we receive for the forgiveness of our sins and in the hope of eternal salvation. I believe in the resurrection of the flesh and everlasting life.

I acknowledge and believe the holy and ineffable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to be but only one God, of only one substance, of only one nature, of only one majesty and power. We profess that the Father was neither begotten nor created but that He has begotten. The Father takes His origin from no one; of Him the Son is born and the Holy Spirit proceeds. He is the Source and Origin of all Divinity. And the Father, ineffable by His very nature, from His own substance has begotten the Son ineffably; but He has begotten nothing except what He is Himself: God has begotten God, Light has begotten Light, and it is from Him that all Fatherhood in heaven and on earth proceeds. Amen.