Sr. Veneranda T. Ervite, CM
Philippines
“My heart is consumed by the passion of love, is detached from every temporal and earthly object; but it did not know its Beloved and not knowing her, what madness, what illusions, what wanderings, what ravings”!
Love impassioned Fr. Palau to search for the object of his love. He spent long and difficult years in this search. There were so many trials and challenges but these even made him more and more determined. The practice of virtues, the solitude and his total surrender are the forces that helped him moved on and which made him remain faithful.
He searched for his beloved in Carmel. He searched for her in the austerities of religious life, in fasting, silence, poverty. He united himself with his Beloved in faith, hope and love. However, his anxiety for clarification, his desire for something more concrete did not rest.
Finally, he encountered his beloved, the Church. The Church, God and neighbors; Christ the head and the people forming one body with Christ. This is the reality that gives fullness to his capacity to love. And Mary is the perfect model of this Church.
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