Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) In our combating of temptation there are six main things to be done: forestall temptation by watchfulness and prayer; resist it manfully; avoid the presumption that you can dally with evil and conquer it at will; avoid the occasions of sin – persons, places and things; acquire a healthy distrust of self and confidence in God's help; and resist temptation promptly and perseveringly.   Father Charles Hugo Doyle

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) “Spiritual combat” is another element of life which needs to be taught anew and proposed once more to all Christians today. It is a secret and interior art, an invisible struggle in which (we) engage every day against the temptations, the evil suggestions that the demon tries to plant in (our) hearts. Saint John Paul II (Pope) 

(Image osurce: Wikimedia Commons ) Love and fear of God!  These are two strong castles from which we can wage war on the world and on the devils.   St. Teresa of Avila

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) What God expects of us, above all else, is a serious application to conquering our passions…[in order to obtain Christian perfection] you must resolve on a perpetual war with yourself…begin by providing yourself with four weapons, without which it is impossible to gain the victory in this spiritual combat.  These four things are: distrust of one's self; confidence in God; proper use of the faculties of body and mind; and the duty of prayer. Dom Lorenzo Scupoli

( Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Since the Church began aiming more at temporal things than at spiritual, things have gone from bad to worse.  (St. Catherine of Siena)