And stooping so low, so low,
I rose still higher and higher
And thus I attained my end.
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SOME one was speaking to her of the mortifications of the Saints, she replied:
"It is well our Lord has let us know that there are many mansions in His Father's House, that if not He would have told us. [5] Yes, if all souls called to perfection had been obliged to practise these macerations in order to enter Heaven, He would have said so, and gladly would we have undertaken them. But He tells us that in His House there are many mansions. If there are those for great souls, for the Fathers of the Desert and for martyrs of penance, there must be one also for little children. Our place is reserved there, if our love be great—for Him and for our Heavenly Father and the Spirit of Love."
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
[5] Cf. John, xiv, 2.
"I feel that my mission is now to begin," she said a few days before her death, "my mission to make others love the good God as I love Him, to give my little way to souls. . ."
"What is this 'little way' that you want to teach to souls?"
"It is the path of spiritual childhood, it is the way of trust and of entire self-surrender. I want to make known to them the simple means that have so perfectly succeeded for me, to tell them that there is but one only thing to do here below: to cast down before Jesus the flowers of little sacrifices, to win Him by caresses! That is how I have won Him, and that is why I shall be so well received."
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XII