Laetare Sunday

In the darkness of the purgative way, God reorients the soul. Our feelings, which usually want to follow our passions, are spiritualized and channeled to a ...

There is no path to go from seeing the Lord Jesus as a man, to a prophet, to the Son of Man without spiritual purification. As the Lord Jesus underwent the Paschal Mystery, so each of us as “sons in the Son” are called to do the same. The purgative way is an interior purification of our souls. For this to happen, we must accept the purgative way. We can see an example of the purgative way in the blind man in today’s Gospel reading. In order for us to live this mystery, we must cooperate with grace and let it draw us closer and closer to the Lord.