On Studiousness

THE VIRTUE OF STUDIOUSNESS is the love of study and not of knowledge itself. It is like all kinds of truly human loving, integrated to the divine economy of grace, a seeking for the truth through the application of love as itself.

For knowledge is not truth when it is merely amassed like a burden and a thing that clutters the soul, limiting the limitless, and preventing it from reaching out to other souls.

So when you shall study, my precious Starshine, remember that all things that educate is not a seeking for anything else but the love that lives in thyself and the life that needs to be set free in thee on behalf of all that you love here in this world and in all our worlds to come.

Between the beggar who knows how to beg and the scholar who refuse to share, the virtue of studiousness belongs to the former.

Truth is fluent only when it is a limitless good. Knowledge that serves not binds and deceives only itself.

For an educated soul is a loving soul, it is self-cognizant of self and endowed by God with both wisdom's breadth and knowledge's depth, and a heart of limitless width that seeks to embrace all things like a love longing for Itself.

So you must always apply yourself, Starshine, for virtue is a power to act, an exercise in good faith and good will that together achieves right action that adds to the good of All. For what is right action but the willingness to do good and the acceptance of its grace?

All that is virtuous, my love, must be a flowing out of thy heart as grace is a flowing into thy love from the mouth of the one Beautiful.

You must go and strive to find who you are, you must shine, being beautiful without effort: Do not become conscious enough of thyself to forget to love for then you shall cease to live.

For we all must live in the love that we share in God which is the life that we must apply so that others may live that we may in God's own turn possess It forever: That we may be restored to each other in a time and a place where there shall be no more parting of ways.

Do not be afraid of difficulty, within and then without: Pray, persevere always in prayer.

Never be fooled by the fleeting standards of this ephemeral world nor measure the standards of thy own heart by the fickle fashions of these gossamer things.

Do not despair for many hearts love you, seen as well as unseen. Time is distant only to distant hearts and the void of dimensional space is but the absence of our truest selves.

So smile, being present, dear Starshine, do not forget to share your own sun.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.