Genuinely shocked yesterday to find Catholics who would jettison the word kindness because they do not understand it.

So much of CathTwitter is fighting over succession, dates, and minutiae.

So little kindness.

So, for the foreseeable future I will be kindness posting.

Staring out with a work by Sulpician Father Jean Guibert

On The Exceeding Worth of Kindness

Imprimatur 1911

(Will be excerpts...Aeterna Press copyrighted 2015...)

Man's heart opens to kindness, because it is to him a promise of coming happiness;

he clings to it because he looks to it for the healing of the ills he suffers, which mostly are either pain or shame or neglect.

Kindness sweetens the bitterness of humiliation,

for it is indulgent to faults,

and openly respects the misunderstood and the persecuted.

By inspiring anew the Christian love of one's neighbour,

kindness peoples the dreariest mental solitudes,

and dispels the weary sadness of forsaken souls.

Just as much as men long for others to be kind to them,

so are they themselves slow to grow in this virtue,

and remiss in its practice.

It is important to stir up in ourselves the instinctive kindliness which God has implanted in the depths of every human soul,

but which too often is stifled out of life by selfishness.

Every single kind act we do makes us better;

it marks one more victory gained by man over the evil instincts of his lower being.