Rosie Wench's Cottage

“If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is protected from life's difficulties, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again, we are always embraced in God's precious love.”

No, it's true.

Tradition, which may also be described as the identity of the knowledge of Christ, consists in the continuous experiencing of His love, a love ever the same, yet always new, which surpasses all knowledge and limit. Nor can it be experienced except through a simultaneous experience of love among all the faithful (saints), which is to say, in the Church. Hence, it is made known through the Church. Through the Church, therefore, the true expression of this love in Holy Scripture is also made comprehensible (Eph. 3:10).

Repentance, if it is strong, produces the softening of the soul's hardened state, the softening of the arid soil, and brings it to a fertile state. Repentance melts the frozen waters of the river that is our soul, making it flow, in order to quench the thirst of all who approach it, so that they may be made alive again.

You do not want to pray for a certain person because you hate and despise him? That is exactly the reason you should pray for him, this is exactly why you should petition the great Physician, because you yourself are spiritually sick with malice and pride.