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God’s mercy rebukes the sinner even as the Lord chides Job. Which is the way to the home of the light, and where does darkness live? (Jb 38:19). That light is grace and darkness is the blindness that fills the soul of the sinner. How desperately we need that light to see the sad state of our conscience! Look! When it is dark, we do not see how dusty and dirty our house is. Only when the place is flooded with sunlight do we realise its awful condition. So we need the light of God’s grace to show us the real state of our soul and induce us to clean up our hearts!…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The stonemason and the bricklayer are careful to use the measuring line to make sure the walls are straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can’t we say that the virtuous lives of the saints are like a measuring line stretched over our souls to make sure our lives take the proper shape and measure up to their good example? Whenever, then, we celebrate the feast of a saint, let us look to them as giving us the pattern our lives should take…. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each saint in heaven rejoices over the glorification of the other, and his love overflows to him…. The same joy will fill all the blessed, for I shall rejoice over your well-being as though it were my own, and you will rejoice over mine as though it were yours. To use an example: See, we are standing together, and I have a rose in my hand. The rose is mine, and yet you no less than I rejoice in its beauty and its perfume. So shall it be in eternal life: My glory shall be your consolation and exultation, and yours shall be mine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saint Anthony of Padua
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God’s mercy rebukes the sinner even as the Lord chides Job. Which is the way to the home of the light, and where does darkness live? (Jb 38:19). That light is grace and darkness is the blindness that fills the … Continue reading