A Message for Overcoming Sin
OTHER VICES sometimes subside by beneficial surroundings; once opportunity, occasion, or matter of sin are removed, they slow down and diminish; but vanity penetrates the deserts along with the one who flees the external world. For it is animated by no other source than the flowering of virtue in the one it hunts. Whereas all other vices may diminish by mere lapse of time, for this one, length of years is no hindrance. Unless diligence [...]
Feast of the Holy Family – A Message From St. Augustine
Holy Family Icon, Modern Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Luke (2:42-52) When Jesus was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast, and having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the Child Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and His parents knew it not. And thinking that He was in the company, they came a day's journey, and sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances. And not finding [...]