Dear friends,
October promises to be rich in events for all Catholics: The Synod of families and the canonization of the Martin spouses!
Christian energy
If any time supernatural energy was required to live as perfect Christians and obtain salvation, no one disagrees that nowadays, this spiritual valor no longer is imposed imperiously but is still needed. In all the centuries of faith, souls were robust and virile; these days, souls are enervated, courage weakens, great characters disappear under the breath of irreligion, of sensuality and perverse things that are poisoning modern society.
A Christian does not run away, crossing her arms, living a soft and easy life, being rocked in luxury. We do not win the fight without getting violent! Reacting against laziness , against absolute well being and comforts of life, against the love of luxury, pleasures, striking out frivolous reading, fighting the defects of our character … and putting oneself firmly in pursuit of Christian virtues: that is what the Heart of Jesus asks his faithful guards of honor.
A good start is made with “I want”, assisted by grace, that may be enough to put a soul in the right direction and move towards the goal!
But we must “want”, wanting in detail and with patience. Before bad habits, you have to want to overcome them; you must want to triumph … We have the will to deploy all our energies in this perpetual struggle of grace against nature, in that small turf war whose battleground is our own heart.
Who will give us this good will, these energies of virtue, the heroic courage that made the saints? Who ? But of course the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Let us have a familiar contact with Him, put our trust in Him and draw strength in the wound of His Heart! Thus armed and solidly anchored, we will find all the energy needed to comply with the true Christian life whose ultimate goal is eternal salvation! (Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart Bernaud)