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2018 Brisbane Holy Week Mission, Discouragement: Conference by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX
- Discouragement kills hope. And “when hope dies, there is very little chance for faith and charity.” Hope is directly tied to the final end; it makes us believe that the end is attainable. When this belief is lost, we have no reason to go on.
- Why does discouragement have such a power over us? Dom Zeller compares it to the cockle which chokes out the good seed. The good plants are continually having to struggle against the weeds and that is what we do not like. We get tired of the struggle. Discouragement is tied to weariness and fatigue. Everything seems too difficult.
- In the end, discouragement is an “excuse to go on falling.” It tells us that we are justified in giving up the fight. This problem is rampant today in the realm of morals; we live in an age of ‘easy defeat’.
- In the end, the temptation to discouragement is necessary for our perfection. We need to prove our love. Our perseverance must be tried; our courage must be tried.“Courage is not courage until it has experienced fear: courage is not the absence of fear but the sublimation of fear. In the same way perseverance has to be tried by the temptation to give up, by the sense of failure, by an inability to feel the support of grace.”
- Dom Zeller points out the difference between the way the Catholic faces discouragement and the Stoic and the Buddhist do. The Stoic feels interior pain, but refuses to issue an external complaint with his voice. The Buddhist faces discouragement by trying not to feel anything at all.
- The Catholic, on the other hand, faces discouragement, shoulders it, and moves forward in the midst of it. “A man cannot deny discouragement any more than he can deny his existence. It is part of his existence. All he can do is to deny himself the luxury of discouragement; he can mortify his tendency to self-pity.”
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- Discouragement kills hope. And “when hope dies, there is very little chance for faith and charity.” Hope is directly tied to the final end; it makes us believe that the end is attainable. When this belief is lost, we have no reason to go on.
- Why does discouragement have such a power over us? Dom Zeller compares it to the cockle which chokes out the good seed. The good plants are continually having to struggle against the weeds and that is what we do not like. We get tired of the struggle. Discouragement is tied to weariness and fatigue. Everything seems too difficult.
- In the end, discouragement is an “excuse to go on falling.” It tells us that we are justified in giving up the fight. This problem is rampant today in the realm of morals; we live in an age of ‘easy defeat’.
- In the end, the temptation to discouragement is necessary for our perfection. We need to prove our love. Our perseverance must be tried; our courage must be tried.“Courage is not courage until it has experienced fear: courage is not the absence of fear but the sublimation of fear. In the same way perseverance has to be tried by the temptation to give up, by the sense of failure, by an inability to feel the support of grace.”
- Dom Zeller points out the difference between the way the Catholic faces discouragement and the Stoic and the Buddhist do. The Stoic feels interior pain, but refuses to issue an external complaint with his voice. The Buddhist faces discouragement by trying not to feel anything at all.
- The Catholic, on the other hand, faces discouragement, shoulders it, and moves forward in the midst of it. “A man cannot deny discouragement any more than he can deny his existence. It is part of his existence. All he can do is to deny himself the luxury of discouragement; he can mortify his tendency to self-pity.”
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