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Some say "why has God done this to me" in adversity.  To understand the above quotation from St. Alonso, one needs to grasp the Doctrine of Divine Providence:

CCC http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p4.htm 

...............and then scroll down to: "V. GOD CARRIES OUT HIS PLAN: DIVINE PROVIDENCE"

 

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Patience is perhaps not so much about waiting as it is

about how one acts

while waiting

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"No, these things (growth in spirituality and virtue) take a lifetime of practice and hard work and when
they do come together, they do so with a balanced serenity that does
not chafe. We are all very different people and we are all
very different at various points in life.

Never stop trying, but be patient with yourself and especially
patient with those who are far ahead of you or far behind you!

The monks of Mount Athos are always using the phrase: "Be patient"

or "Patience." They even say it to their donkeys when loading them:

"Patience, Demetrios!" We need to keep on trying, to never give up,

but the timetable is God's and His alone. This is a race we cannot

win on our own speed.

"Patience, beloveds, patience!"


Brother Jerome, OSB
http://www.stmarysmonastery.org

 

 

 

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THE BLESSED TRINITY

 

https://www.catholic.com/qa/do-the-triune-persons-have-personalities

Full Question

I understand the Trinity as God as three separate Persons—does this imply that each of them has a separate "personality," and, if so, what is each of their personalities?

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You inquire about the central mystery of the Catholic faith and the most profound one as well (although Our Lord's hypostatic union is a close second).

The simple answer is that, yes, each Triune person has a personality, as the Catholic Encyclopedia HERE affirms, and their respective personalities are simply as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In this case, we see the term personality is used to affirm and distinguish their each being distinct, divine persons, while each also wholly possesses one divine nature. Personality is not meant in the typical merely human sense, e.g., choleric, sanguine, melancholic, or phlegmatic.

For more on this great mystery, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church(232ff.) HERE. In addition, we have a variety of free online resources for you to browse.

Numerous links on "The Holy Trinity" https://www.catholic.com/trinity

 

 

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http://ocarm.org/en/content/liturgy/bl-maria-teresa-st-joseph-ocd-virgin-m

 

 

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If you are wise you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than acanal. For a canal spreads abroad the water it receives, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and then shares without loss to itself its super-abundance of water.

- St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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Living in the Embrace of Divine Providence

Give yourself to God without reserve; in singleness of heart, meeting everything that every day brings forth, as something that comes from God, and is to be received and gone through by you, in such a heavenly use of occurrences. This is an attainable degree of perfection.

- William Law

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The kingdom of God is simply God's power enthroned in our hearts. Faith in the kingdom of God is what makes us light of heart and what Christian joy is all about.
- John Main

 

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APOLOGIES

Not too well just now.  My physical pain has increased.  I see the doctor tomorrow.  Apologies for being remiss in posting into this thread.

"Nothing lasts forever, only God lasts forever"

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Isaac of Stella (?-c.1171)
Cistercian monk
Sermon 51, 25-27 ; PL 194, 1862 ; SC 339

 

"My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it"

“Among all these I sought a resting place,” says the Wisdom of God, “and I will abide in the Lord's inheritance” (Sir 24:7). In its totality the Lord's inheritance is the Church, but above all it is Mary and, in particular, the souls of the faithful... The text continues: “Then the Creator of all gave me his command, and he who formed me chose the spot for my tent, saying, 'In Jacob make your dwelling'” (v.8). For after searching all around for a resting place and failing to find one, the Wisdom of God, his Word, first chose the Jewish people as his inheritance, to whom he “gave his command” through Moses... And he who by this re-creation created the Synagogue, mother of the Church, “fixed his resting place” in his tent - the tent of the Covenant. But now, in the Church, he abides in the sacrament of his Body.

And since he had sought, so to speak, amongst all women for the one from whom he would be born, he particularly chose Mary, who from then on is called “blessed among women” (Lk 1:28)... Christ, who made a new creature of her (cf. 2Cor 5:17), came to dwell in her womb.

In the same way, it is to every faithful soul predestined to salvation that this Wisdom “gives the command and speaks”, when it will and how it will. Either it speaks interiorly by means of our natural intellect, through which it “enlightens everyone coming into the world” (Jn 1:9), and by the inspiration of grace...; or exteriorly with teaching and by means of creation (cf. Rm 1:20)... And the Wisdom of God who thus creates and forms this soul “in Christ Jesus for the good works he has prepared” (Eph 2:10), comes to dwell in its understanding.

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A man spoke with the Lord about heaven and hell. The Lord said to the man “come, I will show you hell.” They entered a room where a group of hungry people sat around a huge pot of cooking stew. Everyone in the room was starving. Each person held a spoon that reached the pot but each spoon had a handle so much longer than their own arms that it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths. The suffering was terrible.

“Come now, I will show you heaven” the Lord said.

They entered a room identical to the first, the big pot of stew, the group of people and the same long-handled spoons. But here everyone was happy and well nourished. “I don’t understand” said the man.“Why is everyone happy here and miserable in the other room? Everything is the same.”

“Here, said the Lord, they have learned to SERVE each other.” 

(from our parish newsletter)

 

23 hours ago, BarbaraTherese said:

APOLOGIES

Not too well just now.  My physical pain has increased.  I see the doctor tomorrow.  Apologies for being remiss in posting into this thread.

"Nothing lasts forever, only God lasts forever"

 

I learnt something from the above.  No matter how down and depressed and tired and in pain I might feel - and no matter how much I might pray spontaneously "on the run" (or as I go about my day).  If I abandon my formal prayer times, I am going to feel a jolly sight worse.  Once I re-established formal prayer, I began to feel much better - even though formal prayer did not come easy.

I might have been experiencing guilt (we Catholics are known as professionals with guilt) because I suspended formal prayer times.  I might have been suffering a flash of bipolar depression.  I might have, I might have, I might have. There is no real way of assuredly knowing reasons why.  Ours is to labour "in this valley of tears" (Hail Holy Queen prayer), do what we can and leave the rest to God.  The sun did shine into my day for a few hours today.  Laudate Dominum, Deo Gratius.

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Another thing I learnt years ago when suffering psychosis intermittently.   The suffering was not due to reality, it was all created in my bipolar delusional mind.  I did offer it all to God and God in Overwhelming, Gracious and Gentle Humility received it as if it was very real, simply because He knew that for me it was very real.

That is one thing I could never get with psychiatry.  I was told often "You know it is not real".  What they did not get is that for me it was very real. 

How can something a person is experiencing be not real?

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