Hard truths
As I was reading a meditation by St. Catherin of Siena in the Magnificat prayer aid for April 29, I was struck by the fact that we “are convinced by lively faith that whatever God gives and permits us is for our good and to make us holy.” Holy cow! She goes on to write that the proof or evidence of this is that Jesus so loves us that he gave his life for us on the cross in an act of “blaz...