I was counting on the fact that there are good people on this forum who are strong in their faith. Those are the type of people who desire to be perfected as their Father in Heaven is perfect. With no accountability or free exchange of ideas, we could easily turn into a mutual admiration society.
Anyway, my source for this theory is Fr. Jean Baptistte Saint-Jure, S.J. (1588-1657), in “The Knowledge and Love or Our Lord Jesus Christ,” frequently read by St. John Vianney. (Through probably not in English, like my copy)
"We should wish with the divine will for heat and cold, storm and calm, and all the vagaries and inclemencies of the elements. We should, in short, accept whatever kind of weather God sends us, instead of supporting it with impatience or anger as we usually do when it is contrary to what we desire. We should avoid saying, for instance, ‘What awful heat!’ ‘What terrible cold!’ ‘What shocking weather!’ ‘Just my bad luck!’ and other expressions of the same kind which only serve to show our lack of faith and of submission to God’s will.
Not only should we wish the weather to be as it is because God has made it so but, whatever inconvenience it may cause us, we should repeat with the three youths in the fiery furnace: ‘Cold, heat, snow and ice, lightenings and clouds, winds and tempests, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him above all forever’ "
Please note: I did not mean to condemn all those posting about the weather. Each of us individuals knows if we were complaining, unsubmissive, etc. in what we said and meant in our hearts. I intended only to encourage the examination of consciences.
