Father, Son and the people

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THE MORALITY OF THE PASSIONS


1762- The human person is ordered to beatitude by his deliberate acts: the passions or feelings he experiences can dispose him to it and contribute to it.


I. Passions


1763- The term "passions" belongs to the Christian patrimony. Feelings or passions are emotions or movements of the sensitive appetite that incline us to act or not to act in regard to something felt or imagined to be good or evil.

1764- The passions are natural components of the human psyche; they form the passageway and ensure the connection between the life of the senses and the life of the mind. Our Lord called man's heart the source from which the passions spring.40



1765- There are many passions. The most fundamental passion is love, aroused by the attraction of the good. Love causes a desire for the absent good and the hope of obtaining it; this movement finds completion in the pleasure and joy of the good possessed. The apprehension of evil causes hatred, aversion, and fear of the impending evil; this movement ends in sadness at some present evil, or in the anger that resists it.

1766- "To love is to will the good of another."41 All other affections have their source in this first movement of the human heart toward the good. Only the good can be loved.42 Passions "are evil if love is evil and good if it is good."43

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Self-abandonment in the Father's hands

Self-abandonment - Part I

Like other businesses and human achievements, spiritual union with God is a task of both sides of a multistage process that can be simplified into two, ascetical and mystical. As was said, the Holy Spirit plays a major role to make people evolve spiritually and as in this case for individuals who are especially in the unitive stage aimed to find God through the ascetical-mystical way.

Since human souls can reach God in several other genuine alternatives, the contemplative way commented in this article is considered by many the "perfect" means to reach God. Contemplation is the last step of this trip, but before reaching there, men and women begin to experience the passive purification. This means the acceptance of testing, the feelings of pain, sorrow or suffering that God permits while waiting for this way of converting the individual to him. 2 Kings 14:26

The person at this time may feel that no one is there for him / her and he / she thinks it is isolated and without hope until they turn to God as expected. At the same time, during the development of this stage the human spirit begins to make sound decisions based on feelings and thoughts fed by the main theological virtues (ie, the virtues directly related to the religious experience of God), which are faith, hope and charity.

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