BLESSED JAN VAN RUYSBROEK ~ ‘The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage’ – Chapter VII-IX – ‘OF THE …
[BLESSED JAN VAN RUYSBROEK – XIII-XIV Century AD; born: Ruisbroek, Holy Roman Empire/ died: Groenendael, Holy Roman Empire; Mystic, Spiritual Writer, Doctor Divinus Ecstaticus]
CHAPTER VII; OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENTS
There is still another coming of Christ our Bridegroom, taking place every day, with growth of grace and renewal of gifts. That is, when a man receives some sacrament with a humble heart void of anything against it. In this way he receives new gifts and more ample grace, because of his humility and through the mysterious working of Christ in the sacraments. Those things which are against the sacraments are unbelief in Baptism, a lack of repentance in Confession, and approaching the Sacrament of the Altar in the state of mortal sin or with an evil intention; and so on as regards the other sacraments.
Those who act thus receive no new grace; their sinfulness increases.
This is the other coming of Christ our Bridegroom, which is present with us every day. We should consider it …More
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"CHAPTER VII; OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENTS
There is still another coming of Christ our Bridegroom, taking place every day, with growth of grace and renewal of gifts. That is, when a man receives some sacrament with a humble heart void of anything against it. In this way he receives new gifts and more ample grace, because of his humility and through the mysterious working of Christ in the sacraments. Those things which are against the sacraments are unbelief in Baptism, a lack of repentance in Confession, and approaching the Sacrament of the Altar in the state of mortal sin or with an evil intention; and so on as regards the other sacraments.
Those who act thus receive no new grace; their sinfulness increases."
"The time which is right for this coming is the hour of death, and the Last Judgement of all men. When God created the soul out of nothing and united it with the body, He set a day and an hour known only of Him, when it would have to give up temporal things and appear in His presence."