Imperfections

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Chrysostom, on speaking of vainglory says: ‘The more rightly you act to repress vainglory, the more you rouse it’; and what is the cause of this? Let us…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “The devil knows very well that a lustful person, a greedy person, an avaricious person, a sinner, has more need of confounding himself and of blushing than of…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “All vices predominate only over those who let themselves be defeated and dominated by them. But vainglory raises its head against the very same people who fight it…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “We, in order to flee from the praises of others, prefer fasts that are concealed and hidden from sight; we prefer silence to eloquent speech; being despised to…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “St. Jerome was right to compare vainglory to the shadow. In fact, the shadow follows the body wherever it goes; it even measures its steps. The body flees…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Let us always be on our guard. Let us not let the enemy of vainglory penetrate into our minds and our hearts because once he enters, he makes…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices 11- “Let us continually ask God the grace of being preserved from the pestilent vice of vainglory, because “every perfect gift comes from on high and descends from…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Our Lord, always solicitous for our good, in order to preserve us from the great enemy of vainglory, warns us of it in various places in the Gospel.…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Let us be careful to not ever talk to others about the things with which the good Jesus is favoring us, other than our spiritual director and confessor.…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “ ‘If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.’ With this sentence, St. Paul wants to say to us for our common edification:…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Let us be careful of vainglory, which is the vice characteristic to devout people. It urges us, without our realizing it, to appear always better than the others,…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “The way traced out by the apostle Paul to the Christian is to strip himself of the vices of the old man, that is, of the earthly man,…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “St. Paul experienced very severely within himself the rebellion of the senses and of the passions, for which he uttered this lament: ‘Therefore, I myself, with the mind…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “ ‘I find then a law’ says St. Paul ‘that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.’ To feel the stimulus of…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “The most seducing passions that vent themselves in manifold actions are those of the sense which are (according to the apostle Paul) fornication, uncleanness, impurity, tainted concupiscence, and…