The cross: school of life; medicine; heaviest conflict
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On the believers' cross: 1.The school of the cross is the school of light.2.Though believers' sins deserve the cross as punishment, God turns it into medicine.
3.The heaviest cross is when the faithful soul is engaged with God Himself as if an enemy—the trial of forsakenness—yet conquered by faith.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE follows, On prayer.
Latin
Crux fidelium: 1. Schola crucis est schola lucis. 2. Quamvis peccata fidelium crucem ut poenam per se mereantur, a Deo vertitur in medicinam. 3. Crux omnium gravissima est ubi fidelis anima cum ipso Deo tanquam hoste committitur—tentatio derelictionis—quae tamen fide vincitur. CAPUT VIGESIMUM PRIMUM sequitur, De precatione.