St. Alphonsus Liguori—Uniformity With God’s Will | Pt. 3

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“True, we should esteem the things that make for the glory of God, but we should show the greatest esteem for those that concern the will of God.”</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week, we conclude our series of readings from St. Alphonsus’s</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Uniformity with God’s Will</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In these final chapters, St. Alphonsus turns his attention to times of spiritual desolation, when submission to the will of God can sometimes be the most difficult.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alphonsus includes in his considerations: the sudden loss of others, particularly those by whom we are spiritually edified; dryness and difficulty in prayer; unrelenting temptation; as well as the circumstances of our own death.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We should consider everything happening to us in the present," Alphonsus writes, "and everything that will happen to us in the future, as coming from the hands of God.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To hearken back to the very first chapter of this work,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">uniformity</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">with God’s will means something more than simply obeying God in this or that circumstance — it means, as St. Alphonsus puts it, “that we make one will of God’s will and ours… that God’s will alone, is our will.”</span></p> <p><strong>Links</strong></p> <p><em>Uniformity with God's Will</em> Full text: <a href="http://www.catholictreasury.info/books/uniformity_with_Gods_will/un3.php" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">http://www.catholictreasury.info/books/uniformity_with_Gods_will/un3.php</a></p> <p>Go to <a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/getaudio" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">http://www.catholicculture.org/getaudio</a> to register for FREE access to the full archive of audiobooks beyond the most recent 15 ep