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Are Christians Allowed to be Sad? w/ Fr. Gregory Pine O.P.

Pints With Aquinas

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The Imperfect Happiness of Life

When we talk about happiness, obviously, we're talking about something that only awaits us in its entirety or in its perfection in heaven. But we can experience something of an imperfect happiness whilst here on earth. The reasons for its imperfection are many. I mean, for one, we just need to interrupt our human operation with frequency because you got to like sleep and stuff like that. Also here on earth, we always can risk the loss or the lessening of certain goods. So there's a kind of craziness to human life, which makes it so that we're never fully secure in our possession of the good. And as a result of which we experience it as something kind of anxiety

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