Reflecting on this interesting First Things post, I'm reminded of the saying:
Afflict the comfortable; comfort the afflicted.Some in St. Blog's have more of a charism for the former, some the latter. It's hard to be all things to all people though St. Paul seems to have had a talent for both admonition and encouragement. Perhaps once the Reformation fissure has been mended healing will come. Edward Oakes writes:
When the Western Church fissiparated in the sixteen century, the Reformers took a portion of the essential patrimony of the Church with them, and they thereby left both the Roman Church and themselves the poorer for it.St. Thérèse was a saint who comforted the spiritually afflicted with the message of love and mercy. According to Oakes, it was St. Thérèse's more "Lutheran" writings that speeded her ascent to becoming a Doctor of the Church.
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