“Anxieties, temptations, aridity, heaviness of heart, tribulations, injuries, unpleasant situations, offenses, ingratitude, crosses, matters which do not go well, and sorrows of various kinds: I will expect all these, even from those I love and whom I have helped. But I will never consider them as evil nor will I regard their origin in men, but rather in God. I know that nothing can take place against the will of God. I know that this is the way He Himself followed here on earth and through which He led the saints closest to Him...
And so, I will consider these as favors and opportunities that He gives me so that I will need to ask for His help, so that I will know my weakness and do penance for my sins. I will try to accept them, confident that this is the road He has laid out for me, that all is ordered for my good, and that my part is to seek to benefit from these situations.”
~Bruno Lanteri
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