(P.66) "But," you may argue, "Look at the visions seen by Teresa. Who would not be holy with all these extraordinary helps? We cannot measure up to them, it were folly to try."
No, we have not heard the voices that Joan of Arc heard, and the better that we have not. Our ordinary way is much safer for us, and more secure. But we have seen more than Joan had. We have the absolutely safe and always audible voices of our superiors and Our Rule. There is no mistake possible here in knowing the Will of God. Joan easily could have slipped. Did we ever really stop to think that it was not the voices that made Joan a saint, nor the command to do God's Will, but her doing it? Neither will the voices sent by God sanctify us; our persistent, insistent adherence to them, however, will.
The saints did but one thing―the Will of God. But they did it with all their might. We have to do only the same thing; and according to the degree of intensity with which we labour shall our sanctification progress. We shall attain the height of Glory in Heaven that corresponds to the depth of Humility we have sounded on earth. The harder you hit the ball on the ground, the harder it rebounds. The perfection of Humility is the annihilation of our will, its absolute (P.67) submission to the Divine in the very least detail.
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