The Catholic saints are never surprised by joy, because they are only surprised by a lack of it in the world around them.

Rejoice Jerusalem

by Rev. George W. Rutler

  “I know not, O I know not/ What joys await us there,/ What radiancy of glory,/ What bliss beyond compare. “ Saint Bernard of Cluny 

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 Governments, kings, and rulers of all sorts come and go and when they are good, their passing from this mortal coil engenders sadness and when they are evil, their end makes their survivors happy, at least for a while; Joy, however, never ends, for it is fealty to Christ whose kingdom is not of this world. By coming “to his own” he sets the world aright, and only those who have been accustomed to an upside down world think that he has upset it. That is the same disordered perspective that thinks holiness is insane and sin is sane.

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