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What other advice did the Archbishop give Mother?

In dealing with her sense of God's absence, her sense that He did not want her, her sense of her own rejection, the Archbishop encouraged Mother to be a cheerful giver. He encouraged her to smile. But he also helped her see the ways in which this suffering caused a radical purification of her soul and prepared her and others for greater union with God.

When did the Archbishop begin to understand Mother's interior darkness?

In February 1956, Archbishop P

We read about the monthly reports Mother had to write to the Archbishop. We read about the permissions she kept having to ask for from the Archbishop, a successor of the Apostles. How we need faith in Christ's union with His Church. How we must pray to be obedient like Christ was, not only to his heavenly Father, but to Joseph and Mary on earth!

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