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To: marshmallow

Your interpretation of my words is wrong.
Doubt is not denial. Ever hear of “The Dark Night of the Soul?”

However, interpreting my doubt as “Approved only by you.” IS mind reading and not allowed on the religion forum.


23 posted on 11/18/2009 4:13:23 AM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: netmilsmom

Regarding that “dark night”.

There are two “dark nights”: the night of the senses and the night of the spirit. In neither of those nights, as explained so well by St. John of the Cross, is the person having doubts about anyone else—only himself. And doubts are not the only crucible of the dark night; there are other considerations presenting themselves in these two forms of dark night: self-knowledge, humility, total dependence on God, —and there is more.

This is what is meant by dark night, and it has nothing to do with the evaluation of the merits or lack of merits of a Pope.


26 posted on 11/18/2009 5:19:12 AM PST by Running On Empty ((The three sorriest words:"It's too late"))
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To: netmilsmom
Doubt is not denial. Ever hear of “The Dark Night of the Soul?”

Please.

The "Dark Night of the Soul" is a purification of the mystical soul. It is a trial ordained by God and only the great mystics of the Church experience it. Few know what it is and still fewer experience it. It is a longing for God while feeling abandoned by Him. The holy souls who experience it always maintain loyalty to their superiors and the Church.

Try not to confuse this mystical phenomenon with unbelief and skepticism about the Church's approach to evaluating sanctity.

27 posted on 11/18/2009 5:29:25 AM PST by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future" -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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