And yet she continued her work. She did not stop, did not stop praying, did not stop in her compassion for those whose lot was the worst. She lived what Christ asked of us all - and we don’t come close.
She continued thinking she had lost faith- felt it was renewed, then lost again. She wrote about it to her superiors and asked that the letters be destroyed less “people will think more of me—less of Jesus.”
Faith to continue when you believe you’ve lost faith, faith that it will return. Faith that your purpose is to do what Jesus did.
What sustains us on this path even when we feel we have lost our faith - what else can be evidence of the deepest faith, to continue on on the same path?
Faith.
She said she had stopped praying.
Sorry, but your pleasant picture of the woman's soul is not reflected in her own words.
I understand the desire of Roman Catholics to rewrite her life and thoughts and fears and lack of faith, but perhaps a better use of their time would be to find out what it was about her particular faith that did not sustain her. Why did it evaporate when she needed it most?
Remember, your platitudes sound lovely, but she did not share them. She denied them.