27/10/202

I wonder if St Paul was all the time able to be in the state of holiness that he preaches and which shines forth from all his letters to his foundations throughout the Empire. He doesn't need to explain his intentions for it is always obvious that it is the Resurrection that he knows as the Saviour of our humanity. The Saviour from what? 

He knows that even after the atonement and graces created by Jesus in the loving obedience he showed throughout his life and especially in the garden, before his judges and on the cross, our lives are constantly besieged by the power of sin and temptations that was the result of man's cooperation with evil in the first garden.

Jesus, in his humanity, also faced Satan in the desert and thus experienced the power of evil. There is often not much need for Satan to offer strong incentives for evil to flourish in my heart. A tiny bit of self can grow into a self-centered pride that completely forgets the Golden Rule which I made so much of in yesterday's reflection. I cannot do much about this weakness myself but what seems impossible for me, is a free gift of Father, Son and Holy Spirit who wants only for Love the Being of God to be recognised accepted and reciprocated by each human soul in creation.

Dear Lord let the recognition of sin by my conscience not be sufficient for me to find comfort; let me not rest until I have truly made amends and confessed my sins in the sacrament you won for all by the sacrificial torments you accepted in full on calvary in obedience to the Being that is Evergreater. May our mother in heaven constantly implore the love of her son she shares with all the Saints to overcome all evil, the enemy of Love.