“Am I not here who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the folds of my mantle, in the crossing of my Arms? Do you need anything more?

            -Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego

For Reflection:

Just as Our Lady spoke these words to Juan Diego, she speaks them to each one of us as well. How does this help me move forward in my confidence to entrust myself to her?

The Three Conversions in the Spiritual Life
by Rev. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Pb 112 pgs
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Foreward  Page ix-x

Requests have reached us from several quarters for a brief outline of these two works, to set in clear relief the main principles of ascetical and mystical theology.  We have not wished, however, simply to repeat what we had written elsewhere.  Accordingly we intend to consider the whole subject from  a point of view which is at once more simple and more sublime, and to speak here of the three periods of the spiritual life, and in particular of the three conversions which constitute the beginning of each.