"Most beautiful Maid of Heaven,
how brilliant is your light.
Like a shining star you point the way to the Father of all light."
Like a shining star you point the way to the Father of all light."
From a
personal standpoint the greatest thing I can ever say about Saint Joan of Arc
is that she leads me closer to God. Last
year to celebrate the 600th anniversary of her birthday I posted a
paper I wrote titled SaintJoan of Arc: A Brilliantly Shining Light of God which explains why I believe that leading people to God was and is Joan’s
greatest mission. It is ultimately this
that makes Joan so beautiful to me which is the beauty of a soul in Christ helping
me to better know the great beauty of our Lord as David expressed in Psalm 27:
“One thing
I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord”
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord”
What has
been so frustrating to me is how difficult it seems to be to share with others
about Joan’s true nature and beauty. Last
year after six years of almost continuous effort I came to a certain
realization and added the quote below to the page of famous quotes testifying
to Joan’s greatness located at MaidOfHeaven.com.
"I
spent six years attempting to give people a proper
understanding
of the incredible beauty of St. Joan of Arc
as I have been blessed by God to have been
able to see in
what at
most has been a brief glimpse. I now realize it is
an
impossible task due to the severe limits of
human
expression. "
When I
wrote these I words I realized that this was perhaps the greatest tribute that anyone
could ever give to Joan to say that her beauty is simple beyond the ability of
human expression to completely describe.
So happy birthday to you Jehanne
this year on the 601st anniversary of your birthday and may you
continue to be a brilliantly shining light of God ever leading people closer to
our great God Who created you.
“For all of this and all that you still are,
I
will love you forever and for all eternity.”
† Jesus Maria
