Chapter 63Gratitude

Gratitude: it is you who open all the closed doors and let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply.

* A loving recognition of the Grace received from the Divine.

A humble recognition of all that the Divine has done and is doing for you.

The spontaneous feeling of obligation to the Divine, which makes you do your best to become less unworthy of what the Divine is doing for you.

* Detailed gratitude: the gratitude that awakens in us all the details of the Divine Grace.

* Integral gratitude: the whole being offers itself to the Lord in absolute trust.

* Mental gratitude: the gratefulness of the mind for what makes it progress.

* The best way to express one’s gratitude to the Divine is to feel simply happy.

23 April 1954

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