Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Photo by  Shalone Cason  on  Unsplash ) A man generally has to suffer a greater conflict, has to go through a harder fight, in telling the sin he committed then would have been suffered in battling against the temptation and overcoming it.  St. Gregory  

If you are looking for an example of patience, behold there on the cross the most excellent example of patience. For great patience is shown in two ways. Either when anyone endures great pain with resignation or when anyone endures that which he was able to avoid and did not avoid.                                                                                  St. Thomas Aquinas

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )     As the Second Vatican Council observed: “In the depths of his conscience man detects a law which he does not impose on himself, but which holds him to obedience.”   Always summoning him to love good and avoid evil, the voice of conscience can when necessary speak to his heart, more specifically: “do this, shun that.”   For a man has in his heart a law written by God.   To obey it is the very dignity of man; according to it he will be judged (cf. Romans 2:14-16).   St. Pope John Paul II

                                                                                          ( Photo©Michael Seagriff) …the Church teaches that authentic freedom does not exist without the truth. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery. In a society in which truth is neither mentioned nor sought, every form of authentic exercise of freedom will be weakened, opening the way to libertine and individualistic distortions and undermining the protection of the good of the human person and of the entire society.   Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith