Jalwa-e-Mashuq

Martyrdom


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“That I may live in one Act of perfect Love, I OFFER MYSELF AS A VICTIM OF HOLOCAUST TO THY MERCIFUL LOVE, imploring Thee to consume me without ceasing, and to let the tide of infinite tenderness pent up in Thee, overflow into my soul, that so I may become a very martyr of Thy Love, O my God!

May this martyrdom, having first prepared me to appear before Thee, break life’s thread at last, and may my soul take its flight, unretarded, into the eternal embrace of Thy Merciful Love.

I desire, O Well-Beloved, at every heartbeat to renew this Oblation an infinite number of times, till the shadows retire (Cant. 4:6) and I can tell Thee my love eternally face to face!”

– Story of a Soul, St Therese of Lisieux

The little Flower of Jesus wrote in a letter, addressed to her Missionary Brothers –

This little prayer which includes all my desires I ask you to say for me each day:

“Merciful Father, in the name of Thy sweet Jesus, of the Blessed Virgin and of the Saints, I pray Thee that my sister be fired with Thy spirit of love, and that Thou wilt grant her the grace to make Thee greatly loved.”

If God should take me soon to Himself, I ask you to continue each day this same prayer, for in Heaven my desire will be the same as upon earth; to love Jesus and to make Him loved.

Once she interrupted a sister speaking to her of the happiness of Heaven:

“It is not that which attracts me…”

“What is it then?”

“Oh! it is LOVE! To love, to be loved, and to come back to earth to make LOVE loved.”

-Story of A Soul, Chapter XII

Source-  https://www.littleflower.org/therese/words-of-st-therese/love-of-god

Sufi words for such a commitment in Divine love –

https://forbeingalive.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/beiraada.mp3

-Shri Vinod ji Agarwal

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