Imagine a worldly person, self absorbed, superficial, spiritually undeveloped, who suddenly experiences a conversion to God. He perceives the inadequacies of his life and he wants to change. And so impulsively he leaves his job and travels to Kolkata to help in the work of the Missionaries of Charity. As he shares the lives of the sisters and their daily task of caring for the most wretched, he is objectively speaking, in Heaven, because he is fully surrendered to a life of love and self denial, but his years of hedonism, materialism and self absorption have so poorly disposed him to such a life, that he experiences it as hellish suffering. And it awakens in him the deepest anxiety and resentment. Now if he remains open to the life, if he continues to spite his resistance to give himself to it, he will find in time his resistances weakening and his faults purged away. He will discover at last, that it is possible to walk the path of love effortlessly and freely, and at that moment the place of suffering will become a place of springs. –Father Barron
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 03:42:28 +0000
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