Our Lord became a spring of Living water for us so that we should not die of thirst among all the miseries that surround us.

How truly he said in the Gospel that he came to serve and not to be served! [Mk 10:45] What tremendous goodness! Can we fail to be shamed by your words and deeds, and the patience you show with us every day?

How truly, again Lord, did you say: Learn from me for I am meek and humble of heart. [Mt 11:29] Where can we obtain this patience and humbleness of heart? Is there any way to achieve it except by taking it from Christ as he taught it to us with those other virtues we need—faith, hope, and charity?

Without faith, we cannot follow that royal road of the divine mysteries. It is faith that opens our eyes and makes us see the truth; and where faith is wanting there is no light and no way leading to goodness.

Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew

Meditations on the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (excerpt)

Catholic Church 1993, Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.

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