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Grace Comes Through Persistent Liturgy Attendance, Not Private Prayer Alone
The speaker explains that reading all the prayers of the world cannot substitute for being present at the liturgy and united in its communal prayer. Without that liturgical unity, it is difficult to heal from spiritual shortcomings. He observes that a person's paths and vistas open when they keep returning to the liturgy, even if they feel nothing the first time; grace comes with the second or third visit and draws the person back.
He gives examples of people who previously did not attend but now come regularly, and others who have continued coming. Without God, without faith, and without love among all people, there is no salvation and no survival. Hatred must be pushed back because it brings nothing good; it brings only the pride for which the devil was cast out of heaven.
Key moments
- Reading all worldly prayers cannot replace being at the liturgy and united in that prayer.
- Without liturgical unity, it is hard to heal from spiritual shortcomings.
- A person's paths open when they persist in attending liturgy even if they feel nothing at first.
- God's grace is felt by the second or third visit, drawing the person to return.
- The speaker knows people who once did not attend but now come regularly, and others who have kept coming.
- Without God, faith, and mutual love, there is neither salvation nor survival.
- We must urgently return to love among ourselves.
- Hatred must be suppressed because it brings nothing good, only the pride that cast the devil from heaven.