I read about Mother Teresa a few years ago in National Geographic, she was in constant depressive torture, a sort of living hell, She confided this to the Cardinals whom she was under.It is something I have thought about and told many who want to know why they cannot find peace, as so many like to propose is yours if only you give yourself to Christ. I would say it even applies to a Saint, just as Jesus had to suffer, maybe so do Saints sometimes.

Silouan received these words for the first time, he was very discouraged, very assaulted by temptations, but it can apply to any similar situation, or it cannot apply at all if one has already become a saint.Ĭlick to expand.Yes, thank you very kind soul, this is how I was thinking it was, but your description is as good as it gets, as they say! But no matter how hard it gets, even if you were to end up in hell, never ever despair, but have faith and trust that God loves you and that He will save you.Īt the time when St. Do accept and receive this suffering and trials as from God for your own perfection. What the phrase essentially means is: Yes, do accept, that you may suffer in this world, that you are tempted, that it may be because of pride and other sins, or whatever other reason. Silouan did, if you feel the state that you are in is not exactly the same as was his at that time yours may be worse, may be better, or simply different. But you don't have take the words the same way St.

They can have meaning for everybody, and even more meanings (so-to-speak) according to every one's situation. These words were addressed, firstly, to St.

Keep your mind in hell and despair not