Are you sometimes tormented by those transgressions which, whether grave or slight, have dug an abyss or cast a coldness between God and you? No amount of penances could renew the bonds of friendship, if Jesus Christ had not paid your debts in advance. Insist, like the apostle, on the intentionally personal nature of Christ’s mediation: you are not anonymous among the ranks of the redeemed.
AN ANONYMOUS MONK The Hermitage Within
