“Many are now [1932]
suffering the loss of earthly goods.
What a most glorious occasion of thanksgiving! It is to me great anguish
to see so many people suffering in that way. But there is also a deep sense of
thanksgiving that the world is being found out at last. We are almost
heartbroken to see the Prodigal Son herding with swine, but rejoicing that he
knows swill is no food for man and swine no company for gentlemen. There is some
chance of the poor prodigal thinking of his father’s home and turning back. To
go back is often spiritual progress. It hardly seems right to sing ‘Te Deum,’
and yet deep down in our hearts there is gratitude to God that Mammon is at
last revealing is essential cruelty and vulgarity, so that mankind in his utter
destitution will see that the only thing sufficiently steadfast is Nazareth and
the only God worth worshipping is Jesus of Nazareth.”
Vincent McNabb, OP, The Craft of Suffering (1936), 57.
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