WE MUST REMOVE OUR HEART FROM WHAT MAY DETACH US FROM OUR END

A renewed commitment to avoid everything that will take Eugene away from the pursuit of the end of his life: to live only for God

This thought of Father Nepveu stayed with me, that there is not a single creature which, taken in itself, does not furnish man with a reason for knowing God, a motive for loving him, and a means for serving him.
Original sin upset this beautiful order, turned it upside-down. To re-establish it we must totally cut off everything that hinders us from tending to our end, everything that is criminal. We must remove our heart from what may detach us from our end, i.e., from everything dangerous, however agreeable it may be.
Finally, we must embrace everything that brings us to our end however wearisome it may be.

Retreat Journal, December 1814, O.W. XV n.130

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