A Message for Overcoming Sin
ALL VICES, once cast down, fade in their strength and are more readily blocked and slipped in subsequent entanglements. But vainglory, when thrown, surges back with fiercer vigor to the grapple; thought vanquished, from its feint it rallies alive, redoubling might. Such is the subtle guile of the enemy who turns the soldier of Christ’s own prowess against him, felling by the soldier’s own valor when direct assault may not prevail. St. John Cassian, The [...]
TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — A Message from St. John Paul II
Unforgiving Servant and his Debtor,Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, cir. 1554-1612 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to St. Matthew (18:23-35) At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants. And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him that owed him ten thousand talents: and as he had not wherewith to pay it, [...]