In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass on to the contemplation of the Divine Light.
St. Isidore of Seville
25 posted on 03/23/2020 9:31:32 PM PDT by Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)