jealousy

i believe it is a great blessing to rejoice with those who rejoice. it is more difficult than weeping with those who weep. it is easy to feel jealous of someone's good fortune, and for Christians, it can be easy to feel envious of another's devotion to God or the gifts/graces they received from Him.

yet i think in Heaven, we will rejoice looking at the great Saints.. because we will only care about God's glory and not our own, and we'll see how the Virgin Mary, and the Apostles, and all the Saints, glorify Him. i so hope that God would help me have this perspective here on earth too.

some great quotes:

"No envious glances will be seen; the happiness of every one of the elect will be the happiness of all. With the Martyrs we shall be like to the Martyrs; with the Doctors we shall be as the Doctors; with the Virgins, as the Virgins; and just as the members of a family are proud of one another, so shall we be of our brethren, without the least jealousy.

Who knows even if the joy we shall experience in beholding the glory of the great Saints, and knowing that by a secret disposition of Providence we have contributed thereunto, who knows if this joy will not be as intense and sweeter perhaps, than the happiness they will themselves possess.

And do you not think that on their side the great Saints, seeing what they owe to quite little souls, will love them with an incomparable love? Delightful and surprising will be the friendships found there - I am sure of it. The favored companion of an Apostle or a great Doctor of the Church, will perhaps be a young shepherd lad; and a simple little child may be the intimate friend of a Patriarch. Oh! how I long to dwell in that Kingdom of Love... "

it's beautiful..
speaking of the last quote, i'd love to be friends with St Therese ;) who wrote this, not knowing that she'd be a Doctor of the Church herself. :)