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Sin and something better

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YOUNG MAN,STRESSED
Fr. Peter John Cameron, OP - published on 10/22/22
The beginning of all sin is the conviction that we can’t be loved ...

More than once in my life I have wondered what I would ever do if I were without a tabernacle to kneel before when overwhelmed by the weight of my sins. In God’s loving providence, even sin plays a redemptive role in leveling us so that we finally come face to face with what really matters in life. As St. Thomas Aquinas put it, “God permits evil in order to draw forth some greater good.” 

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