Sunday, August 13 : Saint Charles de Foucauld

How good you are my God, that you repaeat to us so often “When you call for help, I will come to you! Call me, I will listen.’ Call to God for help in temptation! Do not look to fight with your own strength in temptation or difficulty. The spirit of darkness is much stronger than us. It is one of the ruses of the devil that he will absorb us so much in the first moments of temptation, that we will use all our effort to resist him, but without thinking to call to God, for help, or our angel or the saints. He casts a veil over us to prevent us from looking up, he tries to render us mute, he absorbs us so much that the thought to call to God does not come. Having seperated us from all that is our forces, he conquers too easily. From the beginning of a temptation, seek to resist less from your own force and call to God, have recourse to prayer as soon as the temptation starts and we will vanquish much more easily, where as before we would have been conquered. In temptation, pray, pray, pray!
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