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#Anguish
#Paul related how much #anguish the whole situation with the Corinthian #Christians had caused him.
Even though a favorable opportunity to #preach Jesus presented itself in Troas (#Troy), Paul found no relief in spirit because he had not yet heard from Titus.
He left for Macedonia to find Titus and what had happened in Corinth.
#Paul related how much #anguish the whole situation with the Corinthian #Christians had caused him.
Even though a favorable opportunity to #preach Jesus presented itself in Troas (#Troy), Paul found no relief in spirit because he had not yet heard from Titus.
He left for Macedonia to find Titus and what had happened in Corinth.
anguish...
anguish...
the anguish of the slippery bottle...
the anguish of the slippery bottle...
Amiga Addict Issue 39 Delivers Retro Gaming Highlights
#AmigaAddict #AmigaAddictIssue39 #FastFood2 #AmigaGames #RetroGaming #TurranFTP #ShadowFighter #Anguish #RISKYMouse
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-addict-issue-39-delivers-retro-gaming-highlights/?feed_id=4948&_unique_id=68a86a512eeb4
Today's poem:
When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel
- by Michelangelo
#poetry #artist #creativity #pain #anguish #despair #Michelangelo
Quote of the day, 28 April: Blessed Chiquitunga
During her postulancy at the Carmel of Asunción, Blessed Maria Felicia of the Blessed Sacrament (Chiquitunga) passed through a dark night that tested her vocation.
After a month of “heaven” in her new Carmelite life, during Lent of 1955, Sister Maria Felicia began to feel profound insecurity about her choice, made against the advice of almost everyone she knew. She thought: Wasn’t my decision to enter a cloistered monastery simply an act of self-will?—an opinion expressed strongly by the newly appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Asunción, Monsignor Ramón Bogarín.
From this insecurity came the fear that she had taken the wrong path; the fear produced deep spiritual dryness; and from all of this arose the obsessive temptation: I must leave the cloister… and if I don’t, it’s because I’m a coward.
The community confessor, the same one who had actively resisted her entrance into Carmel, pressured her to decide once and for all. Finally, on 9 August, Sister Maria Felicia made her decision—to leave. She recounts it herself:
Today, I was resolved to leave, but with the anguish of bearing the cross of my infidelity without any merit. The confessor flatly told me to say whether I was leaving or staying. I told him I would leave. A coldness of death came over me, an anguish so deep it even choked back my tears (Spiritual Diary, C, folio 15).
Before giving her final word, Sister Maria Felicia suggested they cast lots—and the confessor, eager to settle the matter once and for all, agreed. Accompanied by the Prioress at that supreme moment, they prayed before the Blessed Sacrament and placed two folded papers at the feet of a statue of Mary.
Sister Maria Felicia drew one. The confessor opened it. It read: I want to die in Carmel.
Immediately, she cried out, convinced and determined: Jesus, my Jesus! Yes, this is Your will.
At the same time, she experienced her weakness and poverty: You see my weaknesses, my cowardice, my fears, my miseries! Alone I can do nothing!
She entrusted everything to the Lord: Jesus, into Your hands I entrust my vocation!
She knew that only He could give her the strength needed to overcome herself, for at times: The weight of Your will is so heavy that I would rather die! I fear sacrifice, I fear the Cross. Help me, Blessed Virgin! Little Jesus of Prague, miracle worker of my vocation! (Spiritual Diary, C, folios 15–16).
Supported by this conviction, trust, and surrender, she renewed the offering she had made from her early youth:
Father! My Father, God of my life. My nothingness—so truly Yours—I offer it back to You today, not knowing how many times I will yet snatch it away again, desperately kicking and screaming to do my own will and not Yours.
In reality, she had never truly withdrawn her will from God. The anguish before the Cross is not a rebellion—just as it was not rebellion in Jesus at Gethsemane.
Still, she renewed her complete surrender:
Here I am, Lord! Your will! But aided by Your strength, Your love, and Your mercy, my God!
Thus, even in the midst of the “dark night,” without emerging from it, in faith, hope, and love, God’s will triumphed.
The Carmelite postulant had died to herself, united to the death of Christ.
Father Julio Félix Barco, o.c.d.
Enseñanzas desde el Carmelo (Lessons from Carmel)
Monte Carmelo 2018, Enseñanzas desde el Carmelo. De los escritos de María Felicia de Jesús Sacramentado-Chiquitunga, no. 1, vol. 126, Monte Carmelo, Burgos. Available at: https://bcd.digicarmel.com (Accessed: 26 April 2025). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.
Featured image: Blessed Maria Felicia of the Blessed Sacrament—Chiquitunga—on the day of her clothing in the Carmelite habit, 14 August 1955. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (Used by permission).
⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
Where in my life is Christ asking me to entrust everything to Him, even when I cannot see the way forward?
⬦ Join the conversation in the comments.
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BLOG | Time Has No Meaning... Neither Does Life
Everything is too much and too little...
https://delphinemusic.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/time-has-no-meaning/ #Abscess, #Anguish, #autism #Autistc , #AutisticBurnout, #ChronicConditions, #ChronicIllness #chronicpain #Degrading #Depression #Despair #Destroyed, #Devastated, #Disabilities, #Disability #Disabled, #Distraught, #Distress, #Distressed, #Fibromyalgia, #Fibroplegia, #FND, #Health, #Healthcare, #Incontinence, #livingwithdisability #MentalHealth, #neuropathicpain #Shame
A dancer has some sort of existential crisis in the middle of a performance. Or it was the performance. How could one tell?
#photography #dance #theater #monochrome #people #anguish
https://creativesplurgesdailyphoto.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/anguish/
Over and over in my mind preside
the dark and somber moods Love puts me through.
Self-pity broods, so I have often cried,
“Alas, do other people feel this too?”
[Spesse fiate vegnonmi a la mente
le oscure qualità ch’Amor mi dona,
e venmene pietà, sì che sovente
io dico: «Lasso!, avviene elli a persona?»]
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian poet
La Vita Nuova [Vita Nova; New Life], ch. 16 / Sonnet 7, ll. 1-4 (c. 1294, pub. 1576) [tr. Frisardi (2012), ch. 9]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet…
#quote #quotes #quotation #anguish #depression #despair #infatuation #love #lovesick #melodrama #passion #sadness #selfpity #torment
@Free_Press I don't want to pay for that either!
Does anyone else feel like they've been kidnapped and are watching the horrors unfold while tied up?
#anguish #anger #Trump #NotMyPresident #coup
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