How Are Spiritual Trials Beneficial? Fr. Jacques Philippe Responds!

[Spiritual trials] are beneficial, because they lead us to locate our identity where it truly belongs. The experience can be highly painful when someone who loves God goes through a phase without an atom of fervor and even with a profound distaste for spiritual things. People do not lose their love for God, for their whole being remains completely oriented toward God; but they lose the feeling of love. The benefit of this trial that it deprives us of any possibility of relying on the good we can do. God’s mercy is all.

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When we pray the “Our Father”, we pray as Jesus prayed. It is the prayer that Jesus prayed, and He taught it to us; when the disciples said to Him: “Master, teach us to pray as you pray." And this is how Jesus prayed. It is so beautiful to pray like Jesus! Formed by...

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