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Behind a Trial Lies God’s Blessing (Elder Ephraim of Arizona †)

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Almost everyone owes their conversion to some trial. Sorrow is a bad thing. But behind it, behind the pain, behind the sadness, there lies God’s blessing, there lies rebirth, the re-creation of the human person and of the family. Almost everyone owes their conversion to some trial. They think everything’s going very well. Then God takes their child. Great distress. Then the grace of God comes and overshadows them and they feel at peace. They become closer to the Church, closer to confession, to the priest. Because of the child, they go the church,. Their pain makes them search, pray for the repose of their child, to have liturgies celebrated. Pain softens the heart and makes it receptive to the words of ...

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