A Path to the Best

There is nothing more difficult than honesty when it urges us to reform ourselves. It is of the ingenuity of the traditional Churches that they practice the sacrament of repentance and confession. I say to my friends that “if we tell the priest our confessor about a sin we have committed, we accept him if he yells at us or banishes us from before him! However, if he, or someone else, comes on his own, to warn us against our same sin, if we, ourselves, do not yell at him, then we will usually consider it calumniation”. We have no portion with God if we do not practice accepting the reforming Word, whencesoever it comes from, be it from our spiritual Father, or from any human being, a stranger or a relative, from words we read… Keeping in mind Man’s former splendor, he has acquired, after his exit from Paradise, bitter atrocities. The worst of what he has acquired is that he did not understand that God, to bring him back to His own heart, has followed him to his Hades. When a reforming Word causes you pain, use nothing as an excuse. Accept it. This is an effective path to the best.