From the Library of Deacon Mike:
"We have what we seek. We don't have to rush after it. It was there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us."
As we leave Fr. Walter Ciszek's "He Leadeth Me" let us summarize, in his own words, the simple yet profound message he has left us: "Many people, from newsmen to housewives, asked me over and over again how I managed to survive the years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. My answer has always been that I survived on the basis of the faith others may find too simple and naïve…The terrible thing about all divine truth, indeed, is its simplicity. Whether it be the secrets of the physical universe he has created, or the Ten Commandments, or the Beatitudes, or the truth we learned in the catechism – all can be simply stated. And yet how curious it is that this very simplicity make them so unacceptable to the wise and the proud and the sophisticated of this world. "It is the simple things of this world," says St. Paul, "that God has chosen to confound the wise."…Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next. That is the fact of the matter; you believe it or you don't – and that is the end of it. Philosophers may argue about it, and they have; some have managed to convince themselves and others of its truth, while others have not. But it is the first truth of the faith, and those who have faith accept it; those who do not, do not. I cannot myself convince anyone of it, but I believe it. I do not apologize for my faith, nor am I ashamed of it…That is the only secret I have come to know. It is not mine alone; Christ himself spoke of it, the saints have practiced it, others have written about it far better than I. I can only hope that what I have written will strike a responsive chord in some, will prove a help to others, however few. And I pray that you may be one of them."
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