St. Bonaventure, pray for us!!
"Truly, we should feel much compassion for those who, given to things of sense and content with external exercises only, neglect throughout their life to enter into the secret sanctuary of their own soul, and there to cultivate the blessed union they might have with God. For while they care little for true mortification of themselves, and consume their life and strength in things not principally necessary, they make little or no progress in spirit, and always stick in the same mire. If they would not exactly like to say the words, yet, in reality, in their hearts and by their actions they do say: "Let him who desires unite himself to God, but that is a thing we do not concern ourselves with, for it is not our way.'" (Blosius the Venerable, died 1566)
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