Author Topic: Im not seeing the benefits of having a Melancholic temperament (Read 5413 times)

Vladimir · « **Reply #5 on:** December 15, 2012, 01:26:31 PM »

Quote from: from "The Four Temperaments" by Rev. Conrad Hock

IV BRIGHT SIDE OF THE MELANCHOLIC TEMPERAMENT

1. The melancholic practices with ease and joy interior prayer. His serious view of life, his love of solitude, and his inclination to reflection are a great help to him in acquiring the interior life of prayer. He has, as it were, a natural inclination to piety. Meditating on the perishable things of this world he thinks of the eternal; sojourning on earth he is attracted to Heaven. Many saints were of a melancholic temperament. This temperament causes difficulties at prayer, since the melancholic person easily loses courage in trials and sufferings and consequently lacks confidence in God, in his prayers, and can be very much distracted by pusillanimous and sad thoughts.

2. In communication with God the melancholic finds a deep and indescribable peace.

He, better than anyone else, understands the words of St. Augustine: "Thee, O Lord, have created us for yourself, and our heart finds no rest, until it rests in Thee." His heart, so capable of strong affections and lofty sentiments, finds perfect peace in communion with God. This peace of heart he also feels in his sufferings, if he only preserves his confidence in God and his love for the Crucified.

3. The melancholic is often a great benefactor to his fellow men. He guides others to God, is a good counselor in difficulties, and a prudent, trustworthy, and well-meaning superior. He has great sympathy with his fellow men and a keen desire to help them. If the confidence in God supports the melancholic and encourages him to action, he is willing to make great sacrifices for his neighbor and is strong and unshakable in the battle for ideals. Schubert, in his Psychology, says of the melancholic nature: "It has been the prevailing mental disposition of the most sublime poets, artists, of the most profound thinkers, the greatest inventors, legislators, and especially of those spiritual giants who at their time made known to their nations the entrance to a higher and blissful world of the Divine, to which they themselves were carried by an insatiable longing."

Elizabeth · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2012, 07:06:43 PM »

Give it time, dear Daegus.

I think the season of Advent is not full of benefits for melancholics in the USA.

I love your wry sense of humor.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2012, 07:35:40 PM »

Many wouldn't be so melancholic if it were't for the sspx heirarchy persecuting good and holy people and playing head games typical of novus ordo.

I like to feel joyful after assisting at Mass. I was feeling joyful then got excited to learn about Third Order franciscans. I was going to transfer over to my local sspx chapel. Then I read the letter closely and the joy left me. I had to read something terrible and was told that we had to ostracize the Franciscan Third Order in Canada which is not very Christian like or in the tradition of St Francis of Assisi. I don't ostracize anyone.

Many souls will be lost if they continue to mistreat and persecute good and holy people.

This is typical novus ordo heirarchy tactics conquer and divide and ostracized and exile those who don't "conform".

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2012, 07:39:11 PM »

One thing about St. Francis of aSsisi was that he converted many Jєωιѕн people and Moslems to Catholicism. He didn't water down his Faith at all. He showed love patience and compassion; he didn't ostracize them or exile them.

michaela benedicta · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2012, 09:26:29 PM »

Dear Viva Cristo Rey,

I read your posts above, and was wondering if you wouldn't mind telling me the whole story...

The reason that I ask is that I have had a desire/calling to join the Third Order of the Franciscans....but would only want to join THE REAL one, not the rubbish that the Novus Disordo version!

My best friend forwarded the link to the SSPX Franciscan Third Order... That is why I would like to hear your story! :)

I know what you mean about the SSPX sometimes... During my whole conversion, it was the general consensus that I was not really a convert, but a Novus Disordo plant!!! (Sigh!!). I still pray for those misguided souls that tried to make my life miserable...

Thank you for reading this!! :reading:

Love,

michaela +