Approach to Penance Van Zeller Hubert
Approach to Penance Van Zeller Hubert "The end of penance is God, not more penances. Penance must have its roots in charity, not austerity."With characteristic Benedictine discretion, Van Zeller here…
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Approach to Penance Van Zeller Hubert
"The end of penance is God, not more penances. Penance must have its roots in charity, not austerity."With characteristic Benedictine discretion, Van Zeller here sets straight common misapprehensions of penance, steering the reader past the Scylla of extremism on the one hand and the Charybdis of avoiding this essential virtue of the Christian life on the other hand. Thus the approach to penance has to be by way of love, not by way of steeling the will to toughness.
It is thus a joyful duty for all to understand and approach the penitential cross correctly. "Take up your cross and follow me," Christ asks each disciple in turn. Rather than a frightful self-punishment, penance is rather a means to an end-God-and thus must always be tempered and exercised according to that end.
Cast in this light, what Van Zeller teaches here is not how one is to do penance, but