Think of the woman of Canaan: she is a pagan, a foreigner. She asks Jesus to cure her daughter who is possessed by a demon. Jesus lets her see that since He has come for the lost sheep of Israel, He has nothing to do with her. Humbly she accepts this, which is the truth, but confidently she insists, 'Lord, come to my aid.' And Jesus shows Himself to be apparently even harder. Often He acts this way with souls to whom He wishes to grant a high place in His love, in order to test their faith. He answers her, 'The bread of the children is not to be thrown to the dogs.' The Canaanite woman then finds, in her humble confidence, this exquisitely appropriate response: 'That is true, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master's table.' She asks no more than a crumb at the banquet of merciful love!
Jesus is conquered!
'O woman, great is your faith; be it done to you as you will': Fiat tibi sicut vis.
'You have stolen my Heart; you have stolen my will from me by your faith filled with love; I can refuse you nothing.'
Is it too much to say, after that, that confident souls steal God's omnipotence?"
-Fr. Jean C.J. d'Elbee, I Believe in Love, 37-38
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