There are two sins that most of us commit in diverse ways. The first is that we often neglect that Christ died for our sins, that is, we overlook that our faith in God’s salvation prevents us from committing sins. I am not talking only about those who have distanced themselves from the mystery of ...
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Repentance
Integrity in Life
If the voices that were born to object to the wrong, to the wrong of the great before that of the little, to individualism and egoism, and to all that is stupid…, if these voices were asleep, then you should fear for everything that has meaning in this life, fear for everything that you care ...
Read moreA Path to the Best
There is nothing more difficult than honesty when it urges us to reform ourselves. It is of the ingenuity of the traditional Churches that they practice the sacrament of repentance and confession. I say to my friends that “if we tell the priest our confessor about a sin we have committed, we accept him if ...
Read moreJudas’ Faction
The sin, from which Lent calls us to flee, is that we prefer what we know about God over God Himself. We have not really understood that our hearts were created to beat with His love alone. Consider it carefully. Most of us see the good that we do as an extension of God, or ...
Read moreWe are Still on the Way
The question of Saint John Climacus: “Why in the case of every other sin do we usually say that people have slipped, and simply that; but when we hear that someone has committed fornication, we say sorrowfully: So and so has fallen?” (15:44), confirms my conviction that the entire Great Lent is a call to ...
Read moreOur Hospital
The Church is not the proper place to preserve our "deadly diseases", our sins and complexes, but rather it is our eternal hospital. Being aware of this requires one thing, it requires sincerity of commitment. The “diseases”, when we refuse to repent of them, are very likely to delude us that we are the doctors ...
Read moreJudgement of the Heart
Flee from justifying the sin. Flee from throwing accusations at heaven and earth. Are you seeking integrity, truly? Accuse yourselves, from the bottom of your heart. Man is not healed from the affliction of sins before the guilty is handed over to be judged (Matthew 15:19)!
Read moreBefore the Fast
The period of the preparation for Lent, which will be completed next Sunday, with its well-known titles, is a continuum. Before the fast and even as an introduction to it, the Church prompts us to establish ourselves on four virtues, without which we cannot secure righteousness; namely: humility, repentance, the love of the poor, and ...
Read moreThe Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee
When I was young, on winter nights, my mother used to seat us, my sister and I, next to her, cover us with her blanket, and indulge with us in story-telling. Before being their very topics, stories are, for those who were, like me, comforted by them, a person who loves you. The benefits of ...
Read moreSpiritual Pride
In the movie “The Two Popes,” Pope Benedict XVI, of thrice-blessed memory, (played by Anthony Hopkins) tells Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce), in their fictional dialogue: “we all suffer from spiritual pride, all of us. You must remember that you are not God… However, you must believe in the mercy that you ...
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