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March 3, 2019
(Jas 1:2-4) My
brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers
temptations: Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience And
patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect and entire,
failing in nothing.
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JIM McCRAE: Purifying Sufferings in Life
"All the mortifications and active purgations which we practice would
serve us poorly indeed if God did not perfect and complete them with
the passive purgations [sufferings that God sends] to which, in His
mercy, He subjects us. These passive purgations reach down into the
very depth of our soul and there they discover and correct innumerable
faults and imperfections which we ourselves would never notice, much
less remedy. God mercifully conceals such things from fervent souls so
that they will not be overwhelmed or discouraged. He discloses these
imperfections only by degrees and in the measure needful to purify
souls and subject them to new trials."
"Even in those things which appear to us to be very pure, righteous,
and holy, we are guilty of a thousand inadvertent imperfections which
we could never discover without some superior light. Much less are we
able to correct them, unless some superior power comes to our aid.
Since nothing vitiated or stained can be joined to supreme purity,
holiness, and justice, without degenerating, smothering, and being
repugnant to it, to arrive at perfect union and divine perfection it is
necessary that God Himself have a hand in the work of our purification
and rehabilitation."
"...At the same time the soul sees itself full of countless faults and
imperfections which formerly it did not perceive or which may have
seemed to it to be very insignificant, simply because it did not have
eyes to see them or because they were small only in comparison with
what we term grave faults. Yet in themselves these faults are truly
enormous in the presence of infinite holiness and they cannot but
impede that union which is so much desired. The soul sees itself filled
with personal views and self-interest; and all its intentions, however
pure, simple, and sincere they may appear, are unconsciously enveloped
in the deceits of self-love."
"The purgations we need most are those which will penetrate to the very
depth of the soul and will reach everything within us that is unclean
so that the disorder of sin can be entirely removed. These purgations
[sufferings of life] must be as varied and as forceful as our evil
inclinations are numerous and strong; they must be the more violent and
painful as the seriousness and number of our own faults are greater;
and they must be so much the more probing and penetrating as the root
of evil is the more profound."
From the book "The Mystical Evolution" by Fr. Arintero.
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Ladder
of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 26- "On discernment of thoughts, passions,
and virtues"
66. I know also a fifth kind of spiritual dispassion
which comes from great simplicity and praiseworthy innocence. For on such
people, help is justly bestowed by God who saves the upright of heart and
imperceptibly rids them of all vice; just as infants, when undressed, are
quite unaware of it.
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