We know by experience that we have not sufficient strength in ourselves to bring to a successful completion our chief Lenten duty, which is to die fully to sin in order to live fully in the risen Christ. But Christ himself, before leaving his own, prayed to his Father to preserve them from evil and from the evil one (John
He had taught them to ask: lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (Matthew
Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, OCD
Divine Intimacy
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