This word, confidence, summarizes the three theological virtues: faith, hope and charity."
Think about this before you read on. Really.
"St. Therese understood that it is our state of misery which attracts mercy.
We have been trained in the habit of looking at our dark side, our ugliness...we think about examining ourselves, yet we do not think, before, during and after the examination to plunge ourselves with all our miseries into the consuming and transforming furnace of His Heart which is open to us in a simple act of confidence."
When was the last time you told Jesus that you loved Him?
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With thanks to Fr. Jean J.C. d'Elbee
