Divine Justice, God's Friendship, and the Purpose of Purifying Trials

Avenging God's rights within ourselves as we grow in sanctity and aspire to greater intimacy with the Divine.  

"Arise, my soul, and follow your Redeemer, for no one can go to the Father but by Him. O sweet Christ, Christ-Love, You are the way, and the door through which we must enter in order to reach the Father." ~ St. Catherine of Siena

Some very helpful thoughts with regard to Divine Justice:

 "In our spiritual life, mercy and justice are continually alternating and intertwining.  God's mercy offers us His divine friendship;  but, in justice, He cannot receive as an intimate friend anyone who retains the slightest attachment to sin and imperfection.  

"Therefore He subjects us to purifying trials for a twofold purpose:  to make us atone for our faults - which is the aim of justice - and to destroy in us the last roots of sin that we may be disposed for union with God - and this is the aim of mercy.  

"Hence, we must accept our trials humbly, realizing that we deserve them.  

"We must accept them with zeal and a love of justice, wishing to avenge in ourselves God's rights, rights which we too often forget and ignore.  

"We ought to accept them too with love, for every trial is a great mercy on the part of God, who wants to make us advance in the way of sanctity."

  ~Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy

Wishing you a blessed, joyous day.  

God is at work in you!!