"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

Our Lady's Juggler or "The juggler of Our Lady" is one of my favorite stories in the book. Its story is about Barnabas, a poor juggler from France that is not contented with his life and his job as a juggler. So when a monk approaches him, he told the monk that he loves to serve the Virgin Mary. The monk took him to the monastery where he met some monks who serve God. There is the prior who wrote books about the rules of scholasticism, Brother Maurice who copied the treaties with a cunning hand on pages of parchment, Brother Alexandre who decorated delicate miniatures and Brother Marbode who cuts images in stones. He realized that all of them have talents that they offer to the Virgin Mary and he has none. He thought of a talent that he can offer to the Virgin but he thought of nothing. But one evening, when the monks where walking to Barnabas' room, they saw him juggling in front of the Virgin Mary and they actually saw the Virgin Mary wiping Barnabas' sweat. Then the Prior, bowing his head down to the marble floor, repeated these words:"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." "Amen," echoed the brothers, bowing down to the floor.

The lesson of this story is do not belittle yourself because we are special in our own ways.

This is one of the questions that people in our class can't answer every time we have recitations.

"Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God?"

It means that those who have become pure in heart, will leave this life and then shall behold the face of God, stand in his presence, and feel fully confidence and faith that they belong with Him.