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(Rom. 9, 18–33; Matt. 11, 2–15) “The kingdom of heaven is in need, and the needy delights it” 4 (Matthew 11:12). The Kingdom is necessary, that is, it is achieved with need, with difficulty, effort and difficult feats; That’s why only those who lead a difficult, ascetic life achieve it. This denies any kind of consolation on the path to the Kingdom. Pleasures of all kinds are removed from the Kingdom, but now we only care about pleasures, sometimes spiritual, but mostly carnal: eating, drinking, having fun, walking and luxuriously in everything. They told the kingdom: “I beg you, forgive me,” although there is a feast in it, and a royal feast, which no one would even think of preparing, but our tastes are not the same. What is considered sweet there is bitter for us; What’s pleasant there is disgusting to us, what’s fun there is painful to us - we’ve completely separated. And the Kingdom, with the needy women who delight it, departs from us. We are glad, we would even be ready to drive them away as quickly as possible and are already starting to talk about it, but the evil one still somehow does not manage to settle this. “The kingdom of heaven is taken by force, and those who use force take it away.” You might be interested in: