Apr 21
“St. Bernard wrote in his third Sermon on the Resurrection: ‘What is it that God punishes if not self-will? Hate your own will and there is no more hell.’ There remains nothing indeed but the divine will, to which the faithful soul adheres with all its strength.”
— G.A. Simon, Commentary for Benedictine Oblates on the Rule of St. Benedict, trans. Leonard J. Doyle. Imprimatur 1947. Abbey Editions, 2024, p. 126.