Prayers & Reflections for December 23

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

Chapter IV
Reflections on Prayer

Sacrifice without love is pain.
Pain with love is sacrifice.
Pain without love is misery.

Love without pain is Heaven.
Love with pain is Purgatory.
Pain without love is Hell.

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons