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• We are drawn into Faith through our intellect which, as St. Thomas Aquinas tells us, is drawn to Truth (God). We are drawn into Hope through our wills in the form of desire which, as the same saint tells us, is drawn to Happiness (God). We seek God to know (intellect) and love (will) Him.

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• With prayer, Faith is helped by daily spiritual reading and study such that we come to know God as He has revealed Himself. With prayer, Hope is helped by a persistent simplifying and quieting of our lives such that we grow to desire God as opposed to the things of this world. Prayer is more than simply our communication with heaven. It is the foundation of our relationship with heaven.

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• Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, and through the Immaculate Heart of Mary will synthesize the particulars of knowledge and desire we offer Him to form them into a higher state of understanding and a way of living through our desires which is more pleasing to Him. In other words, God will take our efforts and mold them into His plan for our lives. We will begin to become who we are, and we will know that this is so.

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• The more we pray, the more we are drawn into seeking quietude in the midst of our active lives as we seek knowledge of and desire for God. We increasingly sense a mountain top monastic presence in our souls in conjunction with the armies waiting for us in the valleys to fight the day to day battles for the Church Militant. This is Thérèse’s Mount Carmel living harmoniously in us alongside Joan’s mystical militancy. We are cloistered with Thérèse and Joan in prayerful solitude on Mount Carmel; we are busy advancing the Kingdom with Joan and Thérèse in our active lives. We are both in solitude and active. Thus is the mystery of our devotion.

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• Our source of life, the fount of the Holy Spirit in the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the real and substantial body and blood of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist given to us in the holy sacrifice of the Mass. Partaking regularly of the sacraments, notably confession and the Eucharist, along with frequent Eucharistic adoration, meditation on the scriptures, and spiritual readings from the saints are the channels whereby Jesus Christ most effectively teaches us through the Holy Spirit. We must confess our sins, partake of the Eucharist (eat His flesh), and worship Him in the Eucharist if we are to reach the Kingdom of heaven.

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• We grow increasingly and lovingly in union of heart, soul, and mind with our sisters in Christ, St. Joan and St. Thérèse, and through this we sense ourselves being united with Christ in the very depths of Mary’s Immaculate heart. We further sense that this is our grace filled manifestation of True Devotion to Mary, prescribed to us by St. Louis de Montfort.

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• Our prayers begin to fill with loving lamentations for the salvation of souls and the reign of the Kingdom of God on earth “as it is in heaven.” Our awareness of our own sinfulness and nothingness grows more acute. We abhor our sins and the notion of trusting in ourselves. We despise the spirit of the world. We love all, including our enemies. We trust completely in the promises of God.

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• We seek only Jesus Christ and His Divine Mercy, to be burned up in the flames of love in His Sacred Heart. Through Him and in the Holy Spirit, we begin to cry, “Abba, Father.”

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• God is all in all.