Job shews the wonderful change of his temporal estate, from welfare to great calamity.
“They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.” (Job 30:10)
The wicked are far from Holy Church in their actions, while those under Holy Church’s instruction know how to rejoice in good times and bad.
“All the wicked ‘fly far’ from Holy Church, not by the paces of footsteps, but by the characters of practices; they fly far not in place, but desert, whereas, pride gaining ground, they contemn her with open upbraiding. But Holy Church knows how to gain ground in sufferings, and in the midst of reproaches to maintain an honourable life; she is taught neither to be cast down by adversities, nor to glory in prosperity. She is instructed, in meeting prosperity, to lay low the mind in downcasting; she is taught, in meeting adversity, to lift up the soul to the hope of the height above. She knows how to ascribe her good things to the mercifulness of the Redeemer, she knows how to ascribe her evil things to the justice of the Judge, that both what is good she has by His bestowing, and what is bad she suffers by His permitting.” -St. Gregory The Dialogist
Women's Prayer Group In Christ 