Sunday, 14 April 2013

Part 116: Doctors of the Church and Perfection: Alphonsus Ligouri


A short thought on perfection...




"The essence of perfection is to embrace the will of God in all things, prosperous or adverse. In prosperity, even sinners find it easy to unite themselves to the divine will; but it takes saints to unite themselves to God's will when things go wrong and are painful to self-love. Our conduct in such instances is the measure of our love of God."

St Alphonsus de Liguori