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Confronting Evil: How Could We Have Missed This?

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(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) "We shall not call injustice, justice; we shall not say that an offense against God is not an offense against God, or that evil is good. When confronted by evil we shall not reply with another evil, but rather with sound doctrine and good actions: drowning evil in an abundance of good." St. Augustine

What Does Fasting Do?

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(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence , quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity .  (St. Augustine)

To Whom Must We Submit Our Spirit and Freedom?

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(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The natural law is written and engraved on the soul of each and every man, because it is human reason ordaining him to do good and forbidding him to sin…But this command of human reason would not have the force of law if it were not the voice and interpreter of a higher reason to which our spirit and our freedom must be submitted.  Pope Leo XIII – Libertas praestantissimus