...St. Thomas Aquinas says expressly that 'everyone who wants to make progress in the spiritual life needs to have joy.'
Sadness debilitates us...
This interior joy is also the state of mind necessary for perfectly complying with our obligations. And the greater these are the greater must be our joy.
The greater our responsibility (parents, teachers, priests, superiors...) the greater our obligation to have this peace and joy to give to others, and the greater the urgency of recovering it when its habitual possession has been interrupted or disturbed.
In Conversation With God: Vol 2 p. 304
No comments:
Post a Comment