From the writing of St George Preca, The Psalm of Father Franco, Carmelite
The soul that comes to know you, God, is always happy with her lot for in you she sees the governance of everything.
Abel came to know you: he fell victim of envy for the honour he offered you.
Job came to know you: he embraced your will proclaiming that all is willed by you except sin.
Abraham, our father, came to know you: in sacrifice he gave his heart and his son in order to please you.
Joseph, son of Jacob, came to know you: he declared that nothing can hinder the designs of your providence.
Moses came to know you: he sang the glory of your greatness — Lord, Master of everything and everyone.
Samuel came to know you: he declared that where there is no obedience nothing pleases you.
David came to know you: and rivers of tears poured out of his contrite heart.
Elijah came to know you: he zealously laboured to make you known among men.
Daniel came to know you, proclaiming that those who trust in you see no confusion.
The saints, our brethren, coming to know you, worthily revered you. They did not seek themselves in anything.
You were their only delight. They underwent oppressions in order to serve you faithfully.
The glorious Virgin Mary, coming to know you, magnified you and proclaimed you mighty and holy.
Joseph, the husband so chaste of Mary, coming to know you, adored in the silence and the purity of his heart the just and unfathomable decrees of your providence.
Paul of Tarsus came to know you and your Son Jesus Christ, and proclaimed you both throughout the world.
Sinners resist you because they have not come to know you. Were they to know you truly, they would even give up their lives for you!
Did not Mary Magdalene, Zaccheus, the Samaritan woman, and the other sinners who came to know you give up all for you, keeping nothing to themselves?
That is why the soul that comes to know you, though heaped with sin, hastens to you never to shy away.
