Emotions

The true religious emotion we defined as an abiding moving of the entire soul of man in a direction away from the world, sin and the devil to Christ and all He stands for. So defined, the true emotion is identical to conversion, to the mortification of the old and the quickening of the new man. The former the Catechism defines as a sincere sorrow of heart that we have pro­voked God by our sins, and a desire to more and more flee from the world. The quickening of the new man is a sincere joy of...