Thank you Dr Lilles! This is Maria Go. I was your student at Avila Institute some years ago. Your class and writings have always been so spiritually uplifting!
I am in formation for the Order of Consecrated Virgins. And this beautiful reflection has reallly encouraged me to practice renunciation and to stay faithful to Christ as His bride!!
Thank you for this nutritious reflection! As I read your reflection, I felt renunciation seemed similar to surrender, it feels like the exhale that is required if we are to be filled. Yet it's an exhale of self in all its limitations so that God can take us into His limitless Self. I especially loved your understanding of the praise that follows renunciation... "Praise is the radiance of the splendor of God in a soul, the showing forth of His attributes in the world." Blessings in His Presence AM
Thank you Dr Lilles! This is Maria Go. I was your student at Avila Institute some years ago. Your class and writings have always been so spiritually uplifting!
I am in formation for the Order of Consecrated Virgins. And this beautiful reflection has reallly encouraged me to practice renunciation and to stay faithful to Christ as His bride!!
Thank you for this nutritious reflection! As I read your reflection, I felt renunciation seemed similar to surrender, it feels like the exhale that is required if we are to be filled. Yet it's an exhale of self in all its limitations so that God can take us into His limitless Self. I especially loved your understanding of the praise that follows renunciation... "Praise is the radiance of the splendor of God in a soul, the showing forth of His attributes in the world." Blessings in His Presence AM