Chatting about: Love of Complacence and Benevolence in the Treatise

Judy (Guest): Hi Carol Anne. Glad to have you back!

Judy (Guest): This set of chapters was again a little hard to get through, but I persevered and plowed through the questions. They were the toughest so far. Mother do you know how I can shrink the section of the screen where we write our comments? It is too wide and I am having trouble with the writing because it disappears.

Judy (Guest): REgular computer.

Judy (Guest): Hoe do I do that?

Judy (Guest): Well, I will start with the first question. Complacence toward God leads to benevolence toward God when we realize the sovereign god and infinite perfection that is in the Divinity. This moves us to exercise benevolence , an approbation of and perseverance in the complacency we have in Him. m

Judy (Guest): In other words, we move from complacency to benevolence which leads back to complacence and thence again to benevolence and so on. Complacence to benevolence to compassion to benevolence to complacence to benevolence to compassion.

Judy (Guest): How did I do that?

Judy (Guest): Yes, I read quite a bit and wrote it all down. I also invoked the Holy Spirit for understanding of what I was reading.

Judy (Guest): I also asked the Spirit to give me the ability to communicate what I was answering to the others.

Judy (Guest): I think that the transition is that realization of the sovereign good and infinite perfection that is in the Divinity.

Judy (Guest): If we did not have that realization, we would not progress beyond complacence.

Judy (Guest): I think, Mother, that your mention of the fact that

Judy (Guest): God is neither richer nor greater, mor more content or happy by the benedictions we give Him is really the answer to the second question about the difficulty as regards a benevolent love toward God. God’s happiness , content, greatness and His riches neither are, nor can be any other thing than the Diving infinity fo His goodness. He is wholly sufficient in Himself.

Judy (Guest): Divine Infinity.

Judy (Guest): HiJane and jBrian!

Judy (Guest): Surely complacence must lead to benevolent love toward G

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Judy (Guest): The difficulty comes in the fact that we know that no matter how deep our love for God, it does not add anything to His attributes and so we might wonder shy do we give Him our love. The answer is that He desires our love.

Judy (Guest): Do I find my joy in the Lord? When I allow myself to move beyond the more negative aspects of my life and truly focus on the benevolence of the LOrd toward me, I truly do find my joy in the Lord. Sadly, it is too easy to be mired in my own problems rather than to bound over them and rest in the Lord’s benevolent love at all tmes.

Judy (Guest): Especially at this point in my life when I see myself getting weaker, my legs getting weaker and more wobbly and I feel frightened about what could lie ahead. I do beg your prayers as I seek more medical wisdom on my doncition.

Judy (Guest): Condition.

Judy (Guest): Sure, be happy to do so.

Judy (Guest): Thank you, Mother!!!

Judy (Guest): Time before the Blessed Sacrament is Heaven on earth. To be alone withHim is so precious and beautiful. I wish I could do it more,but getting there is difficult for me, financially and physically.

Judy (Guest): I don’t think so.

Judy (Guest): I do know that my own disabilities make me more sensitive to the disabilities of others and more sympathetic toward then.

Judy (Guest): Brian, you are a very wise man!

Judy (Guest): Thank you Brian.

Judy (Guest): Question 4: Complacence leading us to a benevolent love of God in turn leads to compassion for we cannot think of out Savior without recallint His intense and horrific sufferings and we are then led back to a more intense benevolent love.

Judy (Guest): And that benevolent love must be accompanied by deep gratitude for all that the Lord has done for us.

Judy (Guest): Amen, Carol Ann!!

Judy (Guest): What an example to all of us on how to keep on going in spite of great difficulties.

Judy (Guest): And now to hit the last question before time runs out, on honoring God. Since we can do nothing to increase God

Judy (Guest): God’s richness, greatness, contentment or happiness, then to praise Him is bthe fat the greatest way in which we can express our benevolent love fHim. What have I done to honor the Lord? I hope that my prayerful recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours, with its Psalms and other prayers of praise, give Him the glory He deserves. Also, holy Mass is itself a singular act of thanksgivingiving and r

Judy (Guest): Singular act of thanksgiving and praise and so I give honor to Him in the Mass.

Judy (Guest): I hope that I also give honor to Him by the quality of my life which I try to live in union with His will and which I desire to live for Him and Him alone.

Judy (Guest): You are showing compassion toward that person, Carol Ann.

Judy (Guest): And remembering that whatever we do for our brothers and sisters, we do for the Lord, you are showing compassion for the Lord, too.

Judy (Guest): I can see His presence in each and every one of you and I am grateful for your presence in my life. You are a gift from the Lord.

Judy (Guest): I think that we are grateful to have the opportunity to share our faith with others who are like-minded.

Judy (Guest): And so another chat is coming to an end. Let us all grow in that benevolence and compassion that issue from complacence and pour ourselves out to the Lord.

Judy (Guest): Have a blessed week, everyone!

Judy (Guest): Looks as if we are all on the same page here!