The beauties of the Catholic faith experience are like the “threshold of the house of God”. Why exactly is that threshold preferable to the ugly “dwellings of the wicked?”

The beauties of the Catholic faith experience are like the “threshold of the house of God”. Why exactly is that threshold preferable to the ugly “dwellings of the wicked?”
Becoming saints is our calling, but it is not easy. Sometimes God sends us chastisements to speed us along. But they only work if we embrace them.