The glorious St. Simeon was very happy to carry Him as did Our Lady. We do this when we endure with love the labors and pains He sends us, that is to say, when the love which we bear to the Law of God makes us find his yoke easy and pleasing, so that we love these pains and labors, and gather sweetness in the midst of bitterness. This is nothing else but to carry Our Lord in our arms. Now, if we carry Him in this way, He will, without doubt, Himself carry us.
--St. Francis de Sales,
Treatise on the Love of God
Image source: Alexey Yegorov, Simeon the Righteous (ca. 1830-1840), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_%28Gospel_of_Luke%29#/media/File:Yegorov-Simeon_the_Righteous.jpg
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