CORRUPTION IN POLITICS !!! BUT IF THEY SHOULD HUMBLE THEMSELVES PRAY !!!

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The deepest hole is gluttony and greed, for, like a very deep hole, it cannot be filled. His greed was that insatiable! He bore the name of monk, and the name of monk implies self-restraint and abstinence even from licit wants. Yet this name was erased in him, and now he is called Saul. As The bride is shown the judgment of the soul of a monk before Christ the judge. The Blessed Virgin intercedes for him and the devil accuses him savagely of grave sins.
Book 4 - Chapter 102 SAINT BRIDGET PATRON SAINT OF EUROPE PART IV
Then the Judge turned to the soul and said: "Soul, you had the rational faculty of discerning between good and evil. Why did you trample your priestly honor underfoot?" The soul answered: "I did have the rational faculty, but I preferred to follow my own will by not believing that something so great could lie hidden beneath such modest appearances." The Judge then said: "You knew that the monastic way of perfection meant humility and obedience. Why did you enter it as a wolf in the likeness of a sheep?" The soul said: "So that I could flee the world's reproach and lead a quieter life." The Judge replied a third time: "Brother - but no brother of mine - if you saw the example of your holy brothers and heard the words of the saints, why did you not follow them?" The soul answered: "All those good things that I heard and saw were loathsome and onerous to me, for I had decided in my heart rather to follow my own will and my own ways than the ways of the saints."

The Judge spoke for the fourth time: "Did you not frequently fast and pray and go to confession?" The soul: "I did frequently fast and pray, but I did it in the manner of a man who admits some lesser things in order to please but hides greater ones in order not to displease." The Judge: "Had you not read that each man must render an account even of a farthing, that is, even of the least little things?" Then, as though wailing loudly, the soul said: "Indeed, Lord, I had read it and I knew it in my conscience, but I thought that your mercy was so great that you would not punish someone for eternity. Accordingly, I did have the desire to repent in old age, but pain and death came upon me so suddenly that, when I wanted to go to confession, I had lost my memory, and my tongue was tied as if with a chain."

Then the devil cried out: "Judge, this is incredible! I see that this soul is condemning herself. So let her confess her wickedness now to no avail. Yet I dare not lay my hand upon her without your sentence." The Judge answered: "It is over and done." At that the Ethiopian and the soul disappeared, as though they were tied together. They went down with a great clap of thunder.
Then the Judge said: "All this took place in an instant, but, for the sake of your understanding, it appeared to take place in time so that you may see and know and fear God's justice."

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