o “When Christ came into our midst to redeem us, says a great theologian, he descended so low that after that no one would be able to fall without falling into him.”

Prayer in the name of Jesus is especially powerful against the Devil. “In my name,” Jesus said of His followers, “they shall cast out devils” (Mk 16:17).

Elisabeth Leseur († 1914) was a French laywoman whose atheist husband, upon reading her spiritual journal after her death, experienced a profound conversion and later became a Dominican priest.

The more God is cast off and forgotten, the more those who still live their faith will receive a gaze of tender love from God.

By your yes today to God’s will, you make Jesus present to our world that finds it so difficult to believe that God is love.

“What some people think is freedom is nothing more than license that leads to bondage.” Victory Over the Darkness: Realize the Power of Your Identity in Christ (Anderson, Neil T.)

It isn’t difficult for God to make something good and blessed out of human errors. Such confidence gives an enormous freedom. You do the best you can and leave the rest to God. And he does manage!

Popular trust in Saint Joseph is seen in the expression “Go to Joseph ”, which evokes the famine in Egypt, when the Egyptians begged Pharaoh for bread.

As important as faithfulness is, discharging duty and maintaining a commitment do not satisfy God as much as we may think. There is a deeper interior dimension in a personal love for Our Lord that awaits our soul and that we do not realize initially.

Much of the first mistake can be traced to one basic error: we make an attribution about another person’s intentions based on the impact of their actions on us