MARY IMMACULATE
THE MYSTERY
THE MYSTERY
2. The Fall.
But sin intertered and all evils arrived. God was not the author of suffering and sorrow. He did not make us for unhappiness. But we ourselves by sin created suffering.
Accursed sin, cause of all evil. Recall all the sadness, all the anxieties, sufferings and tortures of the human heart from Adam till today. Survey all the sicknesses, oftentimes so painful and repugnant, which scourge humanity. Think especially of the cruel agony of death, the humiliation of decay in the tomb. What a horrible picture! And all this due to sin!
Compare the happy plan of God with the actual pitiful state of man, oftentimes ruled by brutish passions which make us similar to the beasts. Victims of sins of all kinds -- sometimes even the lowest and most degrading --, loss of sanctifying grace, of immortality, of the sight of God -- and then finally Hell, the end of such a miserable life. Sin closed Heaven. No one was entitled to enter therein. Think well of this and hence deduce how hideous must sin be, if God so punishes it.
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
But sin intertered and all evils arrived. God was not the author of suffering and sorrow. He did not make us for unhappiness. But we ourselves by sin created suffering.
Accursed sin, cause of all evil. Recall all the sadness, all the anxieties, sufferings and tortures of the human heart from Adam till today. Survey all the sicknesses, oftentimes so painful and repugnant, which scourge humanity. Think especially of the cruel agony of death, the humiliation of decay in the tomb. What a horrible picture! And all this due to sin!
Compare the happy plan of God with the actual pitiful state of man, oftentimes ruled by brutish passions which make us similar to the beasts. Victims of sins of all kinds -- sometimes even the lowest and most degrading --, loss of sanctifying grace, of immortality, of the sight of God -- and then finally Hell, the end of such a miserable life. Sin closed Heaven. No one was entitled to enter therein. Think well of this and hence deduce how hideous must sin be, if God so punishes it.
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
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