During prayer we call on the Lord, 'Answer me, when I call.' He hears us and enlarges our hearts desire. But how does this enlarging take place, so that when we cry 'even in my afflictions.' Afflictiosn is a training ground of the Most Holy Trinity for the soul. Even St. Paul says, 'but our afflictions bring patience, patience endurance.' This enabling, enlarging of the heart is experienced as a movement from privation of freedom to a freedom of Spirit. Thsi enabling of our Spirit is what God wants us to learn, to ongoingly trust and choose to trust in His workign in our hearts, because 'the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.' [Rom. 5:3-5]

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