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To: NYer

I find it funny that we get lectured about pride from someone who has claimed to have had a one-on-one conversation with the divine.


7 posted on 09/02/2013 3:17:35 PM PDT by ClaytonP
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To: ClaytonP
I find it funny that we get lectured about pride from someone who has claimed to have had a one-on-one conversation with the divine.

The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.
Our Lord's message to St. Faustina - Diary (1563)

Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.
St John Climacus

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.
Saint Ephraem of Syria

Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us.
Saint John Vianney

"God is stern in dealing with the arrogant, but to the humble He shows kindness." - Proverbs 3:34

10 posted on 09/02/2013 3:49:21 PM PDT by NYer ( "Run from places of sin as from the plague."--St John Climacus)
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To: ClaytonP

She wasn’t prideful at all, but very humble. Otherwise this would not have happened.


12 posted on 09/02/2013 6:28:40 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ClaytonP

St Catherine did not write the article
it was written by Msgr. Charles Pope


18 posted on 09/02/2013 11:42:10 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (we're the Beatniks now)
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