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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #55 on: Today at 10:37:46 AM »
What St Paula was accustomed to do is precisely the practice that St John Chrysostom recommends to devout persons, to cleanse, that is, their souls by continual sorrow and unceasing tears, from the defilement of sin; never to interrupt this holy mourning, so as to become more and more pure in themselves, and more and more pleasing in God's sight. " For," he writes, " as the face by frequent washing is cleansed from dirt, so by frequently laving the soul in tears of compunction, we cleanse it from the stains it has contracted, and which, through frailty, are always accuмulating upon it."

— Fr. Scaramelli SJ, Guide to the Spiritual Life, Volume IV, on the love of contrition
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