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This was really good! I truly admire st paul I really liked this article especially since I’m going to choose him as my confirmation saint
I think you have hit on something here Sam, I think it is so true we need first and foremost listen to the God within, isn’t that the real challenge rather than be a copy of another saint. What are we copying? Words? The Holy Spirit may say ask us to be merciful to others and offer a even deeper level of understanding of a situation where the words of a saint may relate to them at that time, inspired but temporary…
Well said Mr. Guzman.
Good things DO INDEED come in small packages;)
Thank you.
How true – we also tend to get frustrated when we fail at such endeavors of imitation. That said, Grace and the practice of virtue will round out our predominate temperament within our own individual being & personality. The melancholic introvert will be required to come out of his shell in charity to others thus slowly acquiring attributes mostly attributed to the sanguine temperament. The sanguine, in true charity, will need to spend time in contemplation and meditation thus giving him characteristics of a melancholic and so on…
I know a Priest who was very outgoing, friendly, smart and witty. He revealed that he was of a melancholic temperament that grace had worked on over the years. You would never have guessed!
great post.
Awsome post. Thanks for sharing.
You have produced another insightful article, Mr. Guzman. We do tend to admire the gifts more than the person who governs them; and for that reason, I think we may say that one admires the sanctity rather than the person — sanctity being another “power,” as St. Paul puts it, another attribute that we may covet in a person. We wish to be that person so as to possess his gift, but we would not take his corresponding burden. Not for the life of us. We are not jealous of persons, but of personal possessions, of gifts, of powers in the Spirit. You chose an excellent quote from St. Paul to illustrate this very point.
Thank you for another wonderful bit of writing. Even Chesterton would admire it.
Great post Sam. Lots to think about 😉