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The name of Jesus is more than light, it is also food. What other name can so enrich the one who meditates?
The name of Jesus is more than light, it is also food. What other name can so enrich the one who meditates? What can equal its power to refresh the harassed senses, to buttress the virtues, to foster chaste affections?… Again, it is a medicine. Does any one of us feel sad? Let the name of Jesus come into our heart, from there let it spring to our mouth, so that shining like the dawn it may dispel all darkness and make a cloudless sky.
ST BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
FROM LIVING FRUITFULLY: JOY, ED. PAUL GROGAN (CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY, 2017)
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