A Message for Overcoming Sin
OTHER VICES and perturbances are known to be uniform and simple, but vainglory is multiple, multiform, and varied, accompanying the warrior to all fronts and everywhere beguiling the victor. For in both habit and form, in speech, in labor, in prayer, in solicitude, in knowledge in obedience, in lowliness, and all besides, it tries to wound the soldier of Christ, and like a most pernicious rock obscured beneath undulating waves, it brings unexpected and miserable [...]
Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost Time — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (22:1-14) Parable of the Wedding Feast (watercolor), Selby Donnison, 1963 At that time, Jesus spoke to the chief priests and the Pharisees in parables, saying: The kingdom of Heaven is likened to a king, who made a marriage for his son; and he sent his servants, to call them that were invited to the marriage, and they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell [...]