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We know by experience that we have not sufficient strength
\nin ourselves to bring to a successful completion our chief Lenten duty, which
\nis to die fully to sin in order to live fully in the risen Christ. But Christ
\nhimself, before leaving his own, prayed to his Father to preserve them from
\nevil and from the evil one, from the seductions of the world and the attacks of
\nSatan. He taught them to ask, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from
\nevil.<\/p>\n
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\ntemptation and danger, for this would be impossible in this life; besides, God
\nhimself permits it to test our virtue<\/span>, but he wanted to assure them sufficient
\nstrength to resist. The evil from which he desired to free them was sin, the
\nonly real disaster, because it separates us from God.<\/p>\n
\nGabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, OCD