The grace of combat No enemies[1] You have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the boast is poor; He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes! If you have none, Small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the […]
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“We need a great devotion to the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ: ‘Everything is in the Passion. It is there where one learns the knowledge of the saints’[1]”[2], our proper law indicates this. It also gives us the noble note: “We should not want to know anything except Jesus Christ and him crucified[3]”[4], since
Resist him, firm in your faith 1 Peter 5:9 There was a French tightrope walker named Charles Blondin.[1] He was able to do incredible tricks on the tightrope. All throughout Paris he performed his acrobatic acts at great heights, which both entertained and frightened his spectators. He performed act after act, doing acrobatics with his
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“The ministry of divine mercy”[1] God… has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation.[2] The words of the Apostle are particularly challenging to us who, as priests, are responsible for the sublime exercise of the ministry of divine mercy. “Man has never needed mercy like he does today,” Saint
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