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Saints 5.30.3013

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With pleasures of the body — it is desire that delights us, realization which disappoints; with pleasures of the soul, desire is weak but spiritual experience is a source of the greatest joy … When our souls are full of spiritual joy we long for more, since by tasting it we learn to desire it more eagerly.

We cannot love what we do not possess, because we do not know its savor. For who can love what he does not know? There for the Psalmist admonishes us, “Taste and see that the Lord is sweet.” As if he were to say more explicitly, “You know not his sweetness if you have never tasted it; let then your heart but taste the bread of life, that coming to know its sweetness you may be able to love it.”

Father Frank Salmani

St. William Church, Warwick