This is the most active of the stages in that we must, under the instigation of actual grace, remove all the obstacles to true growth. For St. Peter, this purgative stage lasts almost the entirety of the pre-Passion and Resurrection accounts in the gospels. It also helps to explain why...
God declares His purpose, power, independence and defiance of obstacles in the way of Him carrying out those purposes. His omnipotent and absolutely infinite power is set to encourage prayer. He has been ordering all events, directing all conditions, and creating all things, that He might ...
The importunate widow represents desire gaining its end, through obstacles insuperable to feebler impulses.Prayer is not the rehearsal of a mere performance; nor is it an indefinite, widespread clamour. Desire, while it kindles the soul, holds it to the object sought. Prayer is an indispensable...
Putting these verses together is a rather embarrassing comparison. Both made short prayers and were answered. The Jewish apostle was rebuked for his little faith and doubts while this Gentile woman was commended for her great faith and for not giving an inch to every obstacles thrown in her way...
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