Thought of the Day August 23, 2019 Mourning leading to new life
What enables one to respond with repentance and true contrition
over the reality of sin and another to despair and continue to wallow in the
spiritual addiction that could ultimately destroy them? Listen to the words of
Pope Benedict XVI.
“Is it good to mourn and
to declare mourning blessed? There
are two kinds of mourning. The first is the kind that has lost hope, that has become mistrustful of love
and of truth, and that therefore eats away and destroys man from within.
But there is also the mourning
occasioned by the shattering encounter with truth, which leads man to undergo
conversion and to resist evil. This mourning heals, because it teaches man to hope
and to love again. Judas is an
example of the first kind of mourning: Struck with horror at his
own fall, he no longer dares to hope and hangs himself in despair. Peter is an example of the second kind:
Struck by the Lord’s gaze, he bursts into healing tears that plow up the soil
of his soul. He begins anew and is himself renewed.” (Jesus of Nazareth)
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