Saint Philip Neri -- A Fool For Christ
“A cheerful and glad spirit attains to perfection much more readily than a melancholy spirit.”
It is Holy Saturday. The tomb is sealed. There is silence, stillness, and waiting.
“A cheerful and glad spirit attains to perfection much more readily than a melancholy spirit.”
I am struck by the thread of life and death that is woven through each of the readings today.
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