Retreat, Rest, Comfort
The Virgin Mary, comfort of Jesus and of humanity, symbolized by the globe, and in particular of the sinners. Stained glass of Mary with child Jesus from the Church St-Blaise Apchon.
The pain of the believer and his comfort.[1]
It is not my limbs that are tired. I do not need to stop to give them rest. It is my Heart that is weary, that needs rest, and I have rest where I find love.[2]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- The pain of the believer and his comfort.[3]
- (...) The world cannot understand, but I find my rest with those who obey… Yes, God rests with the obedient. God would not have had to suffer, to grow weary, if disobedience had not entered the world...[4]
- The preparatory Retreat before the choosing of the Apostles – Mount Arbel near Tiberias.[5]
- These caves seemed cold, hostile, repulsive to you on the first day... now you see them as bridal chambers, scented and bright. In them, you have known God.[6]
- It is not my limbs that are tired. I do not need to stop to give them rest. It is my Heart that is weary, that needs rest, and I have rest where I find love.[7] (Jesus)
- God loved you so much that He gave you back your daughter so that you would always have present in your spirit the goodness and the power of the true God, and that you possess a restraint Against the pagan license and comfort in all your pains of a Woman married woman.[8]
- Sleep is a gift from God, as is light and everything else man has.[9]
- (Mary) I love solitude. I have always loved it. And I love it even more now because I need it to lose myself in God, in my Jesus, so as not to die of the anguish of no longer having Him here.[10]