THE SECRET OF SANCTITY

I am going to reveal to you a secret of sanctity
of happiness. If every day during five, minutes,
you will silence your imagination, close your eyes
to things of sense, and your ears to, earthly sounds
in order to enter into yourself and, there in the
sanctuary of your baptized soul, which is the
Temple of the Holy Ghost, speak to, this Divine
Spirit saying:

O Holy Spirit, Soul of my soul, I adore You.
Enlighten, guide, strengthen and console me; tell me
what I should do; give me Your orders. I promise to
be submissive in all that You desire of me and to accept
all that You allow to happen to me. Grant only to me to
know Your Will.

If you do this will pass your life happily, serene
and consoled, even in the midst of pains, because
grace will be in proportion to your trials giving you
strength to bear them,. Thus you will arrive at the
Gate of Heaven full of merit. This submission to the
Holy Spirit is the secret of sanctity. (Cardinal Mercier)