Written under holy obedience to her superiors, The Autobiography of St. Margaret Mary reveals the intimate spiritual life of the saint to whom Our Lord gave the famous revelations regarding the love of His Sacred Heart. Our Lord Himself taught St. Margaret Mary the ways of this divine love, guiding her from her earliest childhood and making her realize the sometimes painful requirements of a close and personal relationship with the all-pure God. St. Margaret Mary often quotes the words of our Lord to her, showing, for example, how He cannot tolerate the slightest fault. He revealed to her the absolute sanctity of His love, and urged her not to resist His holy will in any way, but to comply with it fully and in all things. Further, she shows that God gave her a supernatural desire for great and continual suffering--many readers will be astonished at St. Margaret Mary's love of the Cross, a love which is certainly incomprehensible on the strictly natural or human plane. Her all-consuming love of God compelled her to embrace whatever suffering she could find--or even invent.
But the book also contains many other interesting revelations as well: On one occasion, the Seraphim, blessed spirits of the highest of the nine choirs of angels, appeared to her and formed with her a spiritual partnership for the love and adoration of Almighty God. On another occasion, she was given a mystical crown of thorns, which caused her intense pain for the rest of her life, yet she considered this an immensely precious grace, of which she was completely unworthy.
In sum, this little book is a powerful antidote to our natural tendency to reduce, in our own thinking, the Divine Majesty to strictly human dimensions. It is a most enlightening revelation on the true spiritual relationship between the all-holy God and His weak, sin-stained creatures. It is an accurate picture of the absolutely pure, all-consuming fire of the Divine Lover of Souls, which is in fact the essence of the Sacred Heart revelation and devotion.
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