Blessed by the grace of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the pilgrim on a journey to Mystical France receives the nearness of the combined hearts of St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux through the Holy Spirit. We unite through nearness with our saintly sisters in alethic wonder to receive our sacred mythology—our story as the Word in our heart—and participate in their mission of bringing the Kingdom of God “on earth as it is in heaven.”
The unfolding of Mystical France as the Kingdom of God is the story of a sacred threshold radiating from Joan’s heart—referred to here as the Sky-Veil—enveloping the pilgrim as an enchanting mode of formation in the fourfold sense of Catholic interpretation—literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogical. The sacred mythology of the Sky-Veil opens Magdalene’s mystical kingdom—the radiance of which shimmers throughout the French royal hearts of Joan of Arc and Thérèse of Lisieux. The alethic appearance of the gift happens through the layered Sky-Veil of Joan of Arc’s heart, Thérèsian Carmelite spirituality, and the holy tradition of Mary Magdalene in France. The horizon of efficacious grace is the Kingdom of God "on earth as it is in Heaven" through the majesty of Joan and Thérèse’s French Catholic spirituality and holy devotion to St. Mary Magdalene on the shores of Provence.
The sacred mythology of the radiant Sky-Veil heralds the alethic nearness of the combined hearts of Joan of Arc and Thérèse of Lisieux, refulgent as a hypostatic prism through which the Holy Spirit unveils the glorified nearness of Magdalene's heart in Provence, the gestalt of Our Lady’s Mystical France, throughout the world.
Mission to World
The Mission of the Sky-Veil is to project the heavenly light of Christ in St. Joan and St. Thérèse’s glimmering combined hearts into all hearts worldwide by giving testimony to that light as nearness ‘in the world.’ The Sky-Veil is the sacred mythology heralding the nearness of their combined hearts.
Alethic Transformation
The resulting alethic transformation in our hearts ‘in the world’ becomes an ascending stairway to Magdalene's mystical mode of redemptive Being in Provence, the gestalt of Mystical France in Heaven. The result is the fulfillment of our consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary, in whose Immaculate Heart this kingdom resides. It is the abandonment of our lives to the prayer Our Lord taught us, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6: 9-13). It is to “seek first the kingdom” (Matthew 6:33).
Method
The method of the Sky-Veil is alethic discovery revealed as sacred mythology and framed by metaphysical Catholicity. It is to “contemplate how we think” to better “see what we have already seen”1 through a single-minded surrender to the opening of the combined hearts in nearness within the context of the magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church. Opening in this sense means to receive, record, interpret, assert, and articulate what these saints give us faithfully and prayerfully. This method of contemplative discourse is our "journey" through the mythic Veil with the saints.
Goal
Our goal is “descriptive fidelity” to what Joan and Thérèse give us "precisely as it is given, and within the limits of how it is given.”2
Outcome
The outcome we seek through the refulgent combined hearts is mystical nearness in holy friendship with St. Joan, St. Thérèse, St. Mary Magdalene, and a sharing in their abiding union with Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
I Honor You Today
“I Honor You Today” from the album, Whispering Stillness, on my music site, WalterEmerson.com.
Lyrics ©Walter Emerson Adams. Music and vocals by Suno ©Walter Emerson Adams.
I honor you today Simplistic praise in heart As one whose cottage sits Among the fields possessed By you who by the hand Of God and Mother, too As angels gathered 'round Were crowned among the true My only hope from God And of Our Lady, too My only prayer I seek Besides my songs for you Is that my place of rest Will be that kingdom blessed Of Joan and Saint Thérèse
Detmer, Phenomenology Explained - From Experience to Insight. p. 18. “Its (phenomenology’s) aim is to help us to see more clearly what we have already seen…”
bid. p. 18. “One of the principal goals of phenomenology, then, is simply descriptive fidelity. The aim is to describe accurately what is given in experience precisely as it is given, and within the limits of how it is given.”