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Following Jesus the Light

  • SERVANT OF GOD CATHERINE DE HUECK DOHERTY

Through faith we are able to turn our faces to God and meet his gaze.


Each day becomes more and more luminous. The veil between God and man becomes less and less until it seems as if we can almost reach out and touch God.

Faith is a pulsating thing; a light, a sun that nothing can dim if it exists in the hearts of men. That's why it's so beautiful. God gives it to me saying, "I love you. Do you love me back? Come and follow me in the darkness. I want to know if you are ready to go into the things that you do not see yet, on faith alone."

Then you look at God, or at what you think is God in your mind, and you say, "Look, this is fine, but you're inviting me to what? An emptiness? A nothingness? There is nothing to see. I cannot touch you. I cannot feel you." Then God goes on to say, "I invite you to a relationship of love: your love of me, my love of you." Yes, God comes to us as an invitation to love ....

At this moment love surges in our heart like a tremendous sea that takes us in and lays us in the arms of God whom we haven't seen but in whom we believe. Across the waves we hear, "Blessed are they who have not seen and yet believe" (Jn 20:29). Now I walk in the darkness of faith and I see. I see more clearly than is possible with my fleshly eyes.

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Acknowledgement

Catherine Doherty, CM. "How Christ Comes to Heal Us." excerpt from the writings of Catherine Doherty (Madonna House Publications).

Reprinted with permission of Madonna House Publications. This excerpt appeared in Magnificat.

The Author

dohertyCatherine de Hueck Doherty († 1985), born in Russia, established the Friendship House in Harlem, New York, in 1938, and later the Madonna House in Combermere, Canada. She is author of Grace in Every Season, Soul of My Soul Coming to the Heart of Prayer, Dear FatherLiving The Gospel Without Compromise, An Experience of God Identification with Christ — a Road to the Mystical Life, and Catherine de Hueck Doherty: Essential Writing.

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