We live and experience selective times

 

We live and experience selective times, Deo gratias, where the evil that is hitting humanity has the power to select and separate and show who deserves to know the truth and who does not, ABOVE ALL who is structured to understand the truth and who does not. Saint Augustin, once again, has the best words to express it.

Nam sicut sub uno igne aurum rutilat, palea fumat, et sub eadem tribula stipulae comminuuntur, frumenta purgantur; nec ideo cum oleo amurca confunditur, quia eodem praeli pondere exprimitur: ita una eademque vis irruens bonos probat, purificat, eliquat; malos damnat, vastat, exterminat. Unde in eadem afflictione mali Deum detestantur atque blasphemant, boni autem precantur et laudant. Tantum interest, non qualia, sed qualis quisque patiatur. Nam pari motu exagitatum et exhalat horribiliter caenum et suaviter fragrat unguentum. (De Civitare Dei, I, 8,2)

"In the same fire the gold shines, the straw smokes, as under the same threshing the stubble is shredded and the grain is cleansed and the sludge is not confused with the oil due to the fact that it is squeezed by the same weight of the crusher, thus one and the same vehement force tests, purifies, filters the good, strikes, knocks down and demolishes the bad. Therefore in the same misfortune, the bad ones curse and blaspheme God, the good ones praise and pray to him. The difference lies not in suffering but in those who suffer. In fact, even if they shake with the same movement, the fetidume stinks disgustingly, the ointment smells pleasantly."