Excerpt from Journals Kept During Times of Retreat, 1894

When St. Francis Xavier was starting from Goa on the last great missionary journey, from which he was never to return, he gave the following advice to Father Antonio Eredia.

"If in meditating on Divine things, our most merciful God should favour you, as is His wont, with some heavenly illumination, do not let it escape from your mind, but note it down in some little book to assist your memory. Believe me that a great part of the real spiritual profit of God's servants consists in such observation, and in carefully recalling to mind pieces of knowledge of this sort given to them in mental prayer and meditation. And if any one who has been from time to time favoured with these flashes of Divine light, writes down the truths revealed by them, he will read them over again after a while, with a very great increase of affection and advantage - that is to say, when he has himself experienced what he had set down in writing.

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