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LIFE OF LOVE - I The Purgative Life (1921-1958) Marie-Paule was born on September 14, 1921 at Sainte-Germaine-du-Lac-Etchemin, province of Quebec. Married to Georges Cliche in 1944, she is the mother of five children. Amid her daily concerns, she finds her joy in a life of intimacy with her Love, the Lord Jesus Christ. It was in obedience to her spiritual director that she wrote her life entitled Life of Love, the preface to which was written by Raoul Auclair, a Marian and eschatological author from France. Here are a few excerpts from this preface. “The imposing collection of fifteen volumes which is Life of Love constitutes a mystical testament that is something completely new in the Church.... The grandeur of this ‘Life’ is a function of the enormity of the times. We know that these times are utterly unique; and this ‘Life’ has something of the unique... Marie-Paule knew that Life of Love would comprise fifteen volumes. The fifteenth is finished.

“If the secret of this narrative was jealously guarded, especially in what concerns charisms – visions, warnings, commands from heaven, – the work to be realized, which is a work of obedience, could not but resound throughout the century, and being, by its very nature, religious, could not but re-echo within the Church.

“If this ‘Life’, over and above its character of intimate configuration, is bound to such an extent to the mystery of this time which is ours, it is certainly because it contains something other than an exemplary teaching; it is also, in itself, a mystery.

“We are inclined to believe that a mystery is something which is seen, which imposes itself, which astonishes. But, oh! how little did Jesus, the totality of Mystery, impose Himself! True, His passage did not meet with indifference. He drew to Himself the lowly and He scandalized the great. It was necessary to await the end – the very end, i.e., the Resurrection and Pentecost – in order, finally, to understand Him.

“That was the time of the Redemption: today is the hour of the Co-Redemption.

“Now, to the end that the realization may stand forth in total clarity, it will be necessary at this time that the entire route be illumined. All that was a sign all along the route, all the visions and predictions, those jets of light whose flash only deepened the darkness of the night of obedience and self-abandonment – yes, all of this – and that of a sudden – will compel recognition of its meaning and its necessity.”

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