Excerpts from The Day is Now Far Spent - Cardinal Sarah

 

In the history of the church the ‘little remnant’ is what saved the faith.

They are the stump that will remain and revive so the tree does not die. 

The saints found God.

The earth is reborn and renewed by the saints.

No human effort, however talented or generous, can transform a soul. Only the Grace and Cross of Christ can save and sanctify.

Christ alone can give His Life to souls; He gives it in the measure in which HE HIMSELF LIVES in us and completely taken hold of us.

So it is with the saints. Jesus lives in their whole lives, in all their actions, in all their desires.

The apostle is measured SOLELY by his sanctity and the intensity of his prayer life.

Everyday we see an unprecedented quantity of works, of time and effort spent ardently and generously but with no result.

Now the whole history of the Church shows that one saint is enough to transform thousands of souls.

Let us look, for example, at the Cure of Ars. Without doing anything but being Holy and spending hours in front of the tabernacle he attracted crowds from all parts of the world to a little unknown village.

Saint Therese of  the Child Jesus, who died of TB after spending her short young life behind a grille in provincial Carmel, did nothing but be HOLY and LOVE JESUS ALONE; by now she has transformed millions of souls.

We wrestle with God: How much of us and our lives does He get? Only when He has complete victory over us like when Jacob was overcome by the Angel can we truly belong to Him and say OUR LIFE IS IN HIS HANDS. When we lay under His authority, we also LIVE under His protection and become ISRAEL - ‘Triumphant with God’  rather than Jacob ‘supplanter.’