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Letter #77, 2021, Fri., July 30: It keeps coming!

    “Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.” —Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

    Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a young French intellectual whose soul was drawn deeply to the mystery who is God. Though born of Jewish parents, Weil eventually adopted a mystical theology that came very close to Roman Catholicism. Weil was a precocious student, proficient in Ancient Greek by age 12. She later learned Sanskrit so that she could read the Bhagavad Gita in the original. Weil in her writings explored her own religious life while also analyzing the individual’s relation with the state and God, the spiritual shortcomings of modern industrial society, and the horrors of totalitarianism. She once said, “We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”

    Letter #77, 2021, Friday, July 30: It keeps coming…

Praise the Lord

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