PSALM 88
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You have put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.
Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your
waves. [Selah] You have caused my companions to shun me; you have
made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot
escape; my eye grows dim through sorrow.
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But I, O LORD, cry out to you; in the morning my prayer comes before
you. O LORD, why do you cast me off? Why do you hide your face from
me? Wretched and close to death from my youth up, I suffer terrors; I
am desperate.
CONTEXT
• I am not qualified
• Frassa has focussed on confession and the beginning of roong out the perils of
mortal sin. Now we focus on the next stage.
• St A R says that like an archer we must aim high – don’t just aim to be free from
mortal sin, aim to be a saint.
•
God is like a millionaire – He can give you anything, but He wants you to love Him for
Himself – not his money or cars
• Similarly, if we invested as much effort (8h a day, 5x days a week) into being a saint as
we did into trying to be millionaires – we’d all be saints. In fact he says its easier and
much more certain that we’d be a saint with such effort than we could guarantee
we’d be a millionaire.
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