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To trust in God's will is the "secret of happiness and content," the one sure-fire way to attain serenity in this world and salvation in the next. Trustful Surrender simply and clearly answers questions that many Christians have regarding God's will, the existence of evil, and the practice of trustful surrender, such as: *How can God will or allow evil? (pg. 11) *Why does God allow bad things to happen to innocent people? (pg. 23) *Why does God appear not to answer our prayers? (pg. 107) *What is Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence? (pg. 85) and many more...This enriching classic will lay to rest many doubts and fears, and open the door to peace and acceptance of God's will. TAN's pocket-sized edition helps you to carry it wherever you go, to constantly remind yourself that God is guarding you, and He does not send you any joy too great to bear or any trial too difficult to overcome. (144 pgs, .)

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Philosophie et théologie

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	01 octobre 1984
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781618909169
Langue	English

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Nihil Obstat: Rev. John P. Sullivan, M.A. Censor Deputatus Imprimatur: Francis Cardinal Spellman Archbishop of New York November 8, 1961
Originally published in 1961 as The Secret of Peace and Happiness by Alba House, Staten Island, New York, a division of St. Paul Publications.
Reissued by St. Raphael Editions, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada in 1978 and 1980, and in 1983 in cooperation with TAN Books.
Copyright © 1980 by St. Raphael Editions.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by an information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from St.Raphael Editions.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 83-50252
ISBN: 978-0-89555-216-7
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina www.TANBooks.com 2012
The following pages were written by a well-known French religious writer of the 17th century, Father Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure (1588-1657), and are an extract from his great work entitled The Knowledge and Love of Our Lord Jesus Christ , which was the constant companion during life of the saintly Cur of Ars. To them has been added a further extract from the writings of St. Claude de la Colombi re (1641-1682).
CONTENTS
P ART I by Father Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure
I. The Will of God Made and Governs All Things
1. God controls all events, whether good or bad
How can God will or allow evil?
Practical examples
2. God does everything with supreme wisdom
Trials and punishments are blessings from God and proof of His mercy
Our trials are never greater than our strength to bear them
II. The Great Advantages to Be Gained from Entire Conformity to the Divine Will
1. Man sanctifies himself by this conformity
2. Conformity to God s will makes us happy in this life as well
III. The Practice of Conformity to the Will of God
1. In the natural incidents of our daily lives
2. In public calamities
3. In the cares and difficulties of family life
4. In reverses of fortune
5. In poverty and its hardships
6. In adversity and disgrace
7. In defects of nature
8. In sickness and infirmity
9. In death and the manner of it
10. In the loss of spiritual consolation
11. In the consequences of our sins
12. In interior trials
13. In spiritual favors
14. Summary and conclusion
P ART II by Saint Claude de la Colombi re
IV. Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence
1. Consoling truths
Trust in God swisdom
When God sends us trials
Loving recourse to God
Practice of trustful surrender
2. Adversity is useful for the just and necessary for sinners
We must have trust in Providence
Unexpected advantages from our trials
Opportunities for acquiring merit and saving our souls
3. Recourse to prayer
To obtain what we want
To be delivered from evil
We do not ask enough
Perseverance in prayer
Obstinate trust
V. Exercise of Conformity to Divine Providence
1. Act of faith, hope and charity
2. Act of filial submission to providence
3. Usefulness of this exercise
A Collection of Classic Artwork
The Classics Made Simple: Abandoment to Divine Providence
P ART I
by Father Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure
Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.
-Isaias 49:15
Chapter I
The Will of God Made and Governs All Things
Treating of the Will of God St. Thomas, following St. Augustine, teaches that it is the cause of all that exists. 1 The Psalmist tells us that all that the Lord wills he does in heaven and on earth, in the seas and in all the deeps. 2 Again in the Book of the Apocalypse it is written: Worthy art thou, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for thou hast created all things, and because of thy will they existed and were created. 3
Hence it is the Will of God which from nothingness drew out the universe with all its grandeur and all that lives in it, the earth with all that is on it and beneath it, all creatures visible and invisible, living and inanimate, reasonable and without reason, from the highest to the lowest.
If God then has produced all these things, as St. Paul says, according to the purpose of his will, 4 is it not supremely right and reasonable as well as absolutely necessary that they should be preserved and governed by Him according to the counsel of His will? And how could a thing remain, unless you willed it; or be preserved, had it not been called forth by you? 5
But the works of God are perfect, it is written in the Canticle of Moses. 6 They are so well done that God Himself, whose judgment is strict and righteous, found when He had created them that they were good and very good . 7 It is quite obvious that He who hath founded the earth by wisdom and hath established the heavens by understanding 8 could not show less perfection in governing His works than in creating them. So, as He is careful to remind us, if His Providence continues to have care of all things, 9 it is in measure and number and weight, 10 it is with justice and mercy . 11 Neither can any man say to him, Why dost thou so? 12 For if He assigns to His creatures the end that He wills, and chooses the means which seem good to Him to lead them to it, the end He assigns them must be good and wise, nor can He direct them towards their end other than by good and wise means. Therefore do not become foolish, 13 the Apostle tells us, but understand what the will of the Lord is, so that doing it you may receive the promise, 14 that is to say eternal happiness, for it is written: the world with its lust is passing away, but he who does the will of God abides forever . 15
1. God Controls All Events, Whether Good or Bad
Nothing happens in the the universe without God willing and allowing it. This statement must be taken absolutely of everything with the exception of sin. Nothing occurs by chance in the whole course of our lives is the unanimous teaching of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and God intervenes everywhere.
I am the Lord, He tells us Himself by the mouth of the prophet Isaias, and there is none else. I formlight and create darkness; I make peace and create evil, I, the Lord, do all these things . 16 It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them, He said to Moses. 17 The Lord killeth and maketh alive, it is written in the Canticle of Anna, the mother of Samuel, He bringeth down to the tomb and He bringeth back again; the Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth . 18 Shall there be evil (disaster, affliction) in a city which the Lord hath not done? 19 asks the prophet Amos: Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches are from God Solomon proclaims. 20 And so on in numerous other passages of Scripture.
Perhaps you will say that while this is true of certain necessary effects, like sickness, death, cold and heat, and other accidents due to natural causes which have no liberty of action, the same cannot be said in the case of things that result from the free will of man. For if, you will object, someone slanders me, robs me, strikes me, persecutes me, how can I attribute his conduct to the will of God who, far from wishing me to be treated in such a manner, expressly forbids it? So the blame, you will conclude, can only be laid on the will of man, on his ignorance or malice. This is the defense behind which we try to shelter from God and excuse our lack of courage and submission.
It is quite useless for us to try and take advantage of this way of reasoning as an excuse for not surrendering to Providence. God Himself has refuted it and we must believe on His word that in events of this kind as in all others, nothing occurs except by His order and permission.
Let us see what the Scriptures say.
He wishes to punish the murder and adultery committed by David and He expresses Himself as follows by the mouth of the prophet Nathan: Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hittite to be thy wife. Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thy own house, and I will take thy wives before thy eyes and give them to thy neighbor and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly, but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun. 21
Later when the Jews by their iniquities had grievously offended Him and provoked His wrath, He says: The Assyrian is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in his hands, I will send him to the deceitful nation, and I will give him charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets . 22
Could God more openly declare Himself to be responsible for the evils that Absalom caused his father and the King of Assyria the Jews? It would be easy to find other instances but these are enough. Let us conclude then with St. Augustine: All that happens to us in this world against our will (whether due to men or to other causes) happens to us only by the will of God, by the disposal of Providence, by His orders and under His guidance; and if from the frailty of our understanding we cannot grasp the reason for some event, let us attribute it to divine Providence, show Him respect by accepting it from His hand, believe firmly that He does not send it [to] us without cause.
Replying to the murmurs and complaints of the Jews who attributed their captivity and sufferings to misfortune and causes other than the