02-10-2024, 06:38 AM
27: THE METHODS USED BY THE DEVIL TO TEMPT AND SEDUCE THOSE WHO DESIRE TO ACQUIRE VIRTUE,
AND THOSE WHO ARE STILL THE PRISONERS OF VICE
My BELOVED SON, never forget that the devil continually seeks your destruction. But his attacks against each soul are varied.
Before introducing you to some of his stratagems, we shall consider different types of persons in different situations.
There are some who are so overwhelmed by their sins that they never even consider the possibility of breaking their chains. Others want to free themselves from this slavery, but they do nothing to accomplish this.
Some think they are secure, and for that very reason are very far from being so.
Others, after attaining a high degree of virtue, fall all the more heavily.
In the following chapters these various types will be treated.
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre