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72. Injustice in Words: Reviling

1. Reviling is dishonoring a person by words or deeds, butmost commonly by words.

2. When it meets its definition fully, reviling is a sinagainst justice, and is, in its kind or genus, a serioussin.

3. We are sometimes required to submit in silence toreviling; this is so especially when our silence is for the good ofothers. And sometimes, for the sake of the reviler himself and forthose who overhear his evil words, we are obliged to make answer,and thus withstand the reviling.

4. The easiest way for a person to take revenge for realor supposed injury is by using angry words. Therefore, anger is afruitful source of reviling.

"Before a man chooses his confessor, he ought to think well about it, and pray about it also; but when he has once chosen, he ought not to change, except for most urgent reasons, but put the utmost confidence in his director."
St Philip Neri

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"It is better to be burdened and in company with the strong than to be unburdened and with the weak. When you are burdened you are close to God, your strength, who abides with the afflicted. When you are relieved of the burden you are close to yourself, your own weakness; for virtue and strength of soul grow and are confirmed in the trials of patience."
St John of the Cross, OCD - Doctor of the Church

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"There is nothing which gives greater security to our actions, or more effectually cuts the snares the devil lays for us, than to follow another person’s will, rather than our own, in doing good."
St Philip Neri

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