12 Ways to Gain a Jubilee Plenary Indulgence and Help Yourself or the Souls in Purgatory
We all have difficult people in our lives and we can be difficult for others. This is a consoling message from the Office of Readings:
"We should feel love and compassion for those who oppose us, rather than abhor and despise them, since they harm themselves and do us good, and adorn us with crowns of everlasting glory while they incite God’s anger against themselves. And even more than this, we should pray for them and not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil by goodness. We should heap good works like red-hot coals of burning love upon their heads…so that when they become aware of our tolerance and gentleness they may undergo a change of heart and be prompted to turn in love to God. In his mercy God has chosen us, unworthy as we are, out of the world, to serve him and thus to advance in goodness and to bear the greatest possible fruit of love in PATIENCE" (St. Anthony Zaccaria).