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67 Life in Christ these souls to the state of grace. 36 Our Venerable Servant of God knows that the human ability to rec- ognize evil is very limited. Hence the sinner is not fully aware of his transgressions committed both during the early period of his mental development and later. We may choose not to weep over the sins we are not aware of, but we must recognize the present darkness of the soul and allow the Eternal Sun to dissipate it. 37 And it is indeed Jesus that allows man to know himself. “For, just as dirt in a house is invisible at night, but revealed when the sun rises, so are we unaware of even the obvious faults when Divine light is not present within us. How clearly do we see all the stains of imperfection, not to say the monsters of our transgres- sions, when the rays of this light enter our hearts. St Peter, too, recog- nized that he was a sinner exactly at the moment when he saw Christ, the Eternal Sun, on his boat. Woe unto you if you do not recognize and admit that you are a sinner today even as you carry Jesus in your heart.” 38 Our solidarity with the weeping Jesus does not end merely with empathy, sorrow and regret. It requires that we cooperate with the Savior in every possible way as we work to destroy the kingdom of evil. Christ destroys its seeds, demolishes what Satan had built and rebuilds and renews what God had accomplished. He destroys the work of the archi- tect from hell and restores the work of the Holy Spirit. 39 Christ Himself convinces a Christian, He Himself encourages him to penance, forgives his sins and bestows His graces upon him. However, He demands to see the fruits of conversion, such as the mortification of one’s opinion, of one’s bad desires and willfulness. He also requires that we offer every- thing to His Majesty. 40 A seasoned expert on the human soul, Father Papczynski knew that hardness of heart is often an obstacle to conversion. Even Jesus had to reproach His own disciples for it when He appeared to them after His resurrection: “He upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart” (Mk 16, 14). When the disciples ran away after Jesus had been arrested, they did not hear a word of reproach from Him. But when He