Ave Maria Meditations
Faith is The greatest treasure we have, so we must use all the means at our disposal to conserve it and increase it. It is only logical, therefore, that we should defend our faith against anything that would endanger it…Let us put into practice the means for acquiring an adequate religious formation, necessarily all the more solid the more difficult the environment that surrounds us and the situations in which we are compelled to lead our lives.
In these times of doctrine confusion, we must take particular cautions not to give away in the content of our faith, not even in the slightest degree. If one yields grounds on any single point of catholic doctrine, one will later have to yield in another, and again in another, and so on until such surrenders come to be something normal and acceptable. And, when one gets used to rejecting dogma bit by bit, the final result will be the reputation of it altogether.
To acknowledge God before men is to be a living witness to His life and to His words… Do we lack the courage to speak to our friends about God? Are we restrained by human respect, by what other people will think of us? Do we concern ourselves with the faith of those who, in one way or another, God has placed in our charge?
One consequence of a strong faith is optimism, and the certainty that things will go well. God’s power goes with us and drives away all possibility of fear. He has given us a vocation to holiness and a divine mission will also give us the grace to fulfill it.
from In Conversation with God.
