Lent is described in tradition as a battlefield for spiritual warfares. It serves as a ground to expose darkness and repent of it. It is both a battlefield and a weapon. The darkness that besieges us in our days, is summoned by Lent to its tribunal for scrutiny. Weariness, sloth, anger, and doubt through which ...
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The Mightiest Weapon
Those who strive to perfect themselves in the life of righteousness will not lack someone to teach them that the mightiest weapon a warrior can wield against deadly temptations is to flee from them.
Read morePagnol Taught Me
Before I read French writer Marcel Pagnol’s novel “My Mother’s Castle” (Le Château de ma Mère), I had no idea that the snake eats at widely spaced intervals (Pagnol says: “once a month”, page 75). This is an ignorance that has been entrenched in me by my distancing myself from all that pertains to the ...
Read moreA Prayer in the Midst of Destruction
O God, God of our salvation, help us with Your tenderness to have this wrath pass away from us. I believe that You are always present with us. I beseech You. Our homelands are already destroyed. For decades, death has been enslaving us as if it were the absolute master! I honestly tell You that, ...
Read moreThe Weapon of Truth
When I write you a text in the form of a question and an answer, I generally refer to one of the older brethren I have come to know during the course of my commitment. The communion of life in the Church convinced me that the knowledge of God is preserved by being passed on ...
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