(Deuteronomy 30:19)


(Deuteronomy 30:19)

...I have set before you life and death...Choose life so that you and your descendants may live.


Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Elisabeth Leseur

"I thirst for sympathy, to bare my soul to the souls that are dear to me, to speak of God and immortality and the interior life ..."

Elisabeth confides to her journal the acute pain she suffered when not only husband but friends as well attacked or made light of what she treasured in her heart:

Bitter suffering of an evening spent in hearing my faith and spiritual things mocked at, attacked and criticized. God helped me to maintain interior charity and exterior calm; to deny or betray nothing, and yet not to irritate by too rigid assertions. But how much effort and inner distress this involves, and how necessary is divine grace to assist my weakness!

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Currently working at Associated Catholic Cemeteries, I am thankful that I am able to share my faith openly. However, I encounter many people, including my own husband's friends, who do not share the same belief. That's when I find much solace in Elisabeth's writing. I am grateful to St. Paul Cathedral, MN, for that's where I found Archbishop Fulton Sheen's CD about "What Every Couple Should Know about Marriage and Prayers" by St. Joseph's Media...Archbishop Fulton Sheen received a spiritual direction from Fr. Leseur in 1924.

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