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ON THE NECESSITY OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

'The confessor is the servant of God, and in this character,

in this alone, the nun holds intercourse with him, consequently she ought to see in him only God's representative,

just as the priest only speaks to the nun as being the

mouthpiece of the Most High. She is in want of enlightenment, of consolation, of strength; it must be divine enlightenment, divine consolation, divine strength that she asks and expects from the ministry of the priest. She cannot fail to feel grateful to him for the help he has afforded her; but this gratitude must not rest in the instrument, but rise upward through him to God, the only Giver of all good. Thus nothing useless passes between them, no time is wasted; all their intercourse is

profitable both for the director himself and the soul

whom he directs. When St. Teresa and St. John of the

Cross met together in the parlor, to converse upon spiritual

subjects, they were both seen to be raised from the ground,

rapt in ecstasy.'

Rev. S. M. Giraud, THE SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE IN THE RELIGIOUS STATE

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