Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

14th Friday after Trinity (August 31st, 2018)

This restful travail is full far from fleshly idleness and from blind security.  It is full of ghostly work, but it is called rest, for grace looseth the heavy yoke of fleshly love from the soul and maketh it mighty and free through the gift of the holy ghostly love for to work gladly, softly, and delectably . . . Therefore it is called an holy idleness and a rest most busy; and so it is in stillness from the great crying and the beastly noise of fleshly desires.

Walter Hylton: The Scale of Perfection.

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The Way is God.

Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy, translated by King Alfred.

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14th Thursday after Trinity (August 30th, 2018)

When the loving kindness of God calls a soul from the world, He finds it full of vices and sins; and first He gives it an instinct for virtue, and then urges it to perfection, and then by infused grace leads it to true self-naughting, and at last to true transformation.  And this noteworthy order serves God to lead the soul along the Way: but when the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands, neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move.  And in all things it is God Who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.

St. Catherine of Genoa: Life.

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14th Wednesday after Trinity (August 29th, 2018)

Ask ye for the greater things, and the small shall be added unto you: and ask for the heavenly things, and the earthly shall be added unto you.

Quoted by Origen as a traditional saying by our Lord.

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On the same day, seeing one work on the sabbath, he said unto him: Man, if indeed thou knowest what thou doest, thou art blessed: but if thou knowest not, thou art cursed, and a transgressor of the law.

Apocryphal New Testament.

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14th Tuesday after Trinity (August 28th, 2018)

Think no further of thyself than I bid thee do of thy God, so that thou be one with him in spirit as thus, without any separating and scattering of mind.  For he is thy being, and in him thou art what thou art, not only by cause and by being, but also he is in thee both thy cause and thy being.  And therefore think of God in thy work as thou dost on thyself, and on thyself as thou dost on God: that he is as he is and thou art as thou art; so that thy though be not scattered nor separated, oned in him that is all, evermore saving this difference betwixt thee and him, that he is thy being and thy not his.

The Epistle of Privy Counsel.

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Our spirits are comfortable (praised be the Lord!), though our present condition is as it is.

Oliver Cromwell: Letters.

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14th Monday after Trinity (August 27th, 2018)

With this sight of the blessed Passion, with the Godhead that I saw in mine understanding, I knew well that it was strength enough for me, yea, and for all creatures living, against all the fiends of hell and ghostly temptation.

Juliana of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love.

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She cried again, "O Love, no more sins! no more sins!"  And her hatred of herself was more than she could endure.

St. Catherine of Genoa: Life.

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Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity (August 26th, 2018)

Silence is not God, nor speaking is not God: fasting is not God nor eating is not God; onliness is not God nor company is not God; nor yet any of all the other two such quantities. He is hid between them, and may not be bound by any work of thy soul, but all only by love of thine heart. He may not be known by reason, He may not be gotten by thought, nor concluded by understanding; but he may be loved and chosen with the true lovely will if thine heart

An Epistle of Discretion.

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