Posted on 02/27/2013 2:22:16 PM PST by RummyChick
POPE Benedict XVI admitted it sometimes felt as if 'God was asleep' during the troubled days of his papacy as he gave an emotional farewell in St Peter's Square before tens of thousands of pilgrims on the eve of his momentous resignation.
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He said it SEEMED LIKE. He wasn’t saying God WAS asleep. He was simply expressing his frustration. I feel the same way sometimes, when I all the evil in the world winning.
I believe I saw a report that B16 has gone blind in one eye. One of the reasons he’s stepping down.
Pretty obvious, unless you're anti-Catholic and looking for any excuse to bash the pope.
Not surprising.
Most of us have never felt the presence of God anywhere. This world is completely dark and devoid of anything holy. It is our temporary torture chamber.
Mother Teresa posited similar thoughts. I think they both may be onto something...
Hers were about not feeling God's presence at all, and for fifty years!
The letters, many of them preserved against her wishes (she had requested that they be destroyed but was overruled by her church), reveal that for the last nearly half-century of her life she felt no presence of God whatsoever — or, as the book's compiler and editor, the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, writes, "neither in her heart or in the eucharist."That absence seems to have started at almost precisely the time she began tending the poor and dying in Calcutta, and — except for a five-week break in 1959 — never abated. Although perpetually cheery in public, the Teresa of the letters lived in a state of deep and abiding spiritual pain. In more than 40 communications, many of which have never before been published, she bemoans the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness" and "torture" she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. "The smile," she writes, is "a mask" or "a cloak that covers everything." Similarly, she wonders whether she is engaged in verbal deception. "I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God — tender, personal love," she remarks to an adviser. "If you were [there], you would have said, 'What hypocrisy.'"
-- from the thread Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith
Benedict XVI's Final General Audience
Why don't you check the validity of things before you post them???????????????
God never sleeps. He does not hang around Sodom, though. The sin has killed the spirit of the church organization...not the real faithful, though.
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