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LIFE OF LIFE - III The Unitive Life (1968 to September 1969) After having read the third volume, Father Veilleux, who was Marie-Paule’s spiritual director from 1957 to 1965 indicated his reflections in a Preface to the volume: “Life of Love was written by a mother of a family of our times. Her entire life was a cross, and consequently, a life of light and pure love. Hence, it speaks a precious language and has much to tell our world, in particular our suffering world which it beckons to an authentic love. Does not the unfolding of such a life constitute the most practical and concrete form of testimony to a very high degree of spirituality? Does it not present, through the thousand and one minute details of such a life of trials, a spirituality desired by God and conceived of by the masters of the spiritual life, with its purgative, illuminative and unitive ways, and with its passive purification? Can we not discern therein the manifest operation of the Holy Spirit?

“Life of Love was composed under the eyes of God, and had its source in the persons, things and events of everyday life, in whatever presents itself each day, in physical and mental suffering, in everything that surrounds us. And it is from this beginning in all that is ordinary, insignificant, dull and monotonous, that the author, constantly recurring to the light from Heaven, has risen to the most sublime of spiritual and eternal considerations.

“It is a work that is only understood, is only grasped, in faith. To approach Life of Love with a purely human outlook, searching in it for what is naturally or intellectually curious, is to deviate from the divine thought, is to move away from the source of graces, is to condemn oneself to being unable either to understand, to enrich oneself, to savor or to save. When God builds, He builds on faith. When He wishes to enter into a heart or a Christian life, He must always have the free, generous collaboration of the spirit of faith, that ‘response to dialogue with God, that ‘yes’ which allows the divine thought to penetrate ours, that virtue which has its roots in human psychology but which derives its value from a mysterious, supernatural action of the Holy Spirit... that spiritual capacity which enables us to accept, as corresponding to reality, the truths which the word of God has revealed to us’ (Paul VI, April 1967).

“Life of Love will not bear its fruit unless it is approached in this spirit.”

(J.-A. Veilleux, O.M.I., excerpts from the Preface to Life of Love, volume III)

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