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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #50 on: April 28, 2026, 12:41:46 PM »
Love, however, assuages the bitterness of suffering. It even makes suffering something to be desired and sought after. "How many little crosses I meet every day!” exclaims a fervent soul. "I love them all, even though they make me suffer exceedingly. If I ceased to suffer, I could not believe that I any longer loved. If I ceased to suffer whilst still experiencing the ardours of a burning love for God, I should not be happy, because I should fear I was being made the sport of the demon."

— Holy Abandonment, Rev. Vital Lehodey, Chapter V, on the love of God
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #51 on: May 06, 2026, 08:40:04 AM »
Let us blush, says St Lawrence Justinian, that we, the friends of God, suffer ourselves to be surpassed by the lovers of this world, who so often risk their bodily lives in the service of their sovereign, and what is worse, even at times imperil their souls' eternal warfare. The Queen of the South, says our Lord, shall rise up in judgment against this generation. And I, continues the Saint, say that worldlings will rise up in judgment against the servants of God, and will show them, by their own example, how deserving they are of rebuke and chastisement, seeing that they have been more lukewarm and slack in God's service than wordlings are in the love and service of the powers of earth.

— Fr. Scaramelli SJ, Guide to the spiritual life, on the love of God (love of preference), volume IV, 1871
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #52 on: May 07, 2026, 09:46:30 AM »
St Paul has truly said, that for them that love God, all things work together unto good, whether sufferings, crosses, or death; (Romans viii, 28) for they that love God rest on the Divine Will in all the events of their chequered life, however bitter and disagreeable these may be; finding in all content, peace, and calm.

— Fr. Scaramelli SJ, Guide to the spiritual life, motives of conformity to the divine will, volume IV, 1871
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #53 on: Yesterday at 09:50:21 AM »
One of the worst conditions that a person can be in is to be a scoffer: God hates this vice extremely, and has in the past inflicted strange punishments for it. Nothing is so contrary to charity, and much more to devotion, as contempt and scorn for our neighbour.

Now derision and mockery can never be indulged in without this contempt; and therefore it is a very grave sin, so that theologians are right in saying that mockery is the worst sort of offence that we can commit against our neighbour by words, because other offences are committed with some esteem of him who is offended, but this is committed with contempt and scorn.

— Introduction to the devout life, St. Francis de Sales, Chapter XXVII, of propriety in words, and the respect we owe to others

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