Letter 57 of Saint-Cyran

It is not in my power to be involved right now in anything, still less in preaching or in anything else, because I have a continual distraction. I learned today that it is not enough to have power: if I should have it, I would still need a new grace to produce the effect. The Son of God was born from the tomb with glory and with the power to give glory to all bodies by his Body. But he will produce the effect of his glory only at the day of Judgement. This makes us see that moments of grace are now in his hand. He said himself that such moments were in the hand of his Father who gave them to him with everything else as payment for his cross. If he wishes to relieve me on Holy Friday of my other business and allows me to come to see you, I will see what I will have to give and I will try to find it in a source which I can draw from by being with you. Naturally, you can draw from that source without any need that I speak to you. So there is all I can promise you, which is nothing, as being nothing myself, and having need of you yourself in order to be able to give you anything. I am writing en route to go to say Mass where I will offer to God your house and your desire that he make you daughters of the Passion. For you have such a great devotion to the Holy Sacrament which is an invisible Passion in the same Body that suffered visibly for our salvation. The difference is that there his blood was spread upon the earth and here it is spread in our souls which ought to be for that reason similar to heaven which received the Body of God on the day of the Ascension.

Translated from the French by Daniel McNeill
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