husband and wife, but that is not their whole life. If one or the other limited himself to marks of tenderness and neglected in other respects his primordial duties, such as providing for the needs of the family or rendering various services, the couple and their children would not believe in the sincerity of this love for very long, and rightly so. We understand these very human examples. God created all natural life in the image of what happens in the divine world. Thus God accepts our sentiments and words of love; certainly we must not neglect them. The spiritual masters have always taught that there must be an affective aspect to our spiritual life. This heart that God has given us, all this affection of our heart must be oriented toward God; but words of love without the corresponding acts are an illusion; it is self-deception. Are we doing what we must in order to be true devotees of Mary? To be so truly, my brothers and sisters, the earth should no longer matter to us. If a certain thing pleases God, we accomplish it; the world no longer matters. Yes, I repeat, there must be declarations of love; they are a little TRUE DEVOTION OR SUPERSTITION? 23
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