diary / by Edward Mullany

Which isn’t to say that a sanctified person themself is always ‘at rest,’ but that they can seem to be, because of the way they carry themselves. For the Holy Spirit, when it makes its domicile inside a person, by way of that person’s openness to it, distributes its gifts to that person, so that even when the person finds it necessary to act (which they do in instances where injustice appeals to their conscience, and compels them) they will exhibit a calmness or poise that is a consequence of the fact that they have no personal interest in the outcome of the event that is transpiring, but feel something more like a sense of duty. Which is not as tedious as it might sound, for duty here arises from an abandonment of the self to the behests of divine love.