The Tragic Loss of Grace

St. Thomas has two words for sadness: dole or like pain and tristizia, which resonates through a whole humanity. They're just a recognition that the thing for which I was made or thing to which I am attached, even if not yet purely or perfectly is lost. And then when it comes to the order of super nature, right, we can lose the life of grace. That's sad because these things for which we're made that we're intended to rest in are treated with violence or disrespect by people who choose against God. But there remains a kind of hope and even an audacity which should encourage in us a response which is more forward thinking or at least