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Meditation
1) Place yourself in the presence of God.
2) Ask for the grace of having a great desire to be pleasing in the eyes of the Lord, and to have eternal life as the only goal of my most important choices, without letting myself be seduced by the spirit of the world.
3) Read the text below and then spend a brief period of time reflecting on it.
How to Resist the Worldly Environment
(From Antonio Royo Marín, Theology of Christian Perfection)
Second Resolution: Rekindle the faith. Faith is the victory that overcomes the world (1 Jn 5:4). “Enlightened by faith, we must oppose the false maxims of the world with the words of Christ. To its seductions, eternal promises, pleasures and diversions, respond with peace and the serenity of a good conscience. To their ironies and their contempt, the courage of the children of God. At their scandals and bad examples, the behavior of the saints and the constant affirmation of an irreproachable life before God and men.” In light of this we consider two biblical texts:
The natural man does not grasp the things of the Spirit of God, they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because only the Spirit can judge them. (1 Cor 2:14).
The preaching of the cross is foolishness for those who are lost; But for those who are saved, it is the strength of God. (...) In fact, as the world through its own wisdom did not know God in his divine wisdom, God wanted to save the believers through the foolishness of preaching. (1Cor 1:18-21).
4) Pray the Litany of Humility
Meditation
1) Place yourself in the presence of God.
2) Ask for the grace of having a great desire to be pleasing in the eyes of the Lord, and to have eternal life as the only goal of my most important choices, without letting myself be seduced by the spirit of the world.
3) Read the text below and then spend a brief period of time reflecting on it.
How to Resist the Worldly Environment
(From Antonio Royo Marín, Theology of Christian Perfection)
Second Resolution: Rekindle the faith. Faith is the victory that overcomes the world (1 Jn 5:4). “Enlightened by faith, we must oppose the false maxims of the world with the words of Christ. To its seductions, eternal promises, pleasures and diversions, respond with peace and the serenity of a good conscience. To their ironies and their contempt, the courage of the children of God. At their scandals and bad examples, the behavior of the saints and the constant affirmation of an irreproachable life before God and men.” In light of this we consider two biblical texts:
The natural man does not grasp the things of the Spirit of God, they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because only the Spirit can judge them. (1 Cor 2:14).
The preaching of the cross is foolishness for those who are lost; But for those who are saved, it is the strength of God. (...) In fact, as the world through its own wisdom did not know God in his divine wisdom, God wanted to save the believers through the foolishness of preaching. (1Cor 1:18-21).
4) Pray the Litany of Humility
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