"To preserve the gift of faith, we must fight ..."
Mar 12, 2018 21:37:08 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 21:37:08 GMT
Mgr. de Ségur from The Good Combat for the Faith (1872):
"Therefore, to preserve the gift of faith, we must fight; we are moving forward, surrounded by enemies: bad examples, the contagion of indifference, of current errors, of naturalism, and of the spirit of revolt which blows so powerfully today from all sides. We have to fear and to avoid the traps of bad doctrines, of false politics, of false teachings, of unwholesome reading. And, moreover, we have to fight against interior enemies that are no less dangerous, all of which, if we let them, would be able first to alter, then obscure, then diminish, then finally extinguish, in our baptized souls, the divine light of faith.
What a combat! It extends over the entire line of our existence. Not one point is always and completely safe; not one age, not one position. We must fight; it is the law. He who puts down his weapons is lost; and, as long as life lasts, the enemy is there, seeking, under a thousand forms, to lead us into its traps and to make us lose first the life of faith, then faith itself."
"Therefore, to preserve the gift of faith, we must fight; we are moving forward, surrounded by enemies: bad examples, the contagion of indifference, of current errors, of naturalism, and of the spirit of revolt which blows so powerfully today from all sides. We have to fear and to avoid the traps of bad doctrines, of false politics, of false teachings, of unwholesome reading. And, moreover, we have to fight against interior enemies that are no less dangerous, all of which, if we let them, would be able first to alter, then obscure, then diminish, then finally extinguish, in our baptized souls, the divine light of faith.
What a combat! It extends over the entire line of our existence. Not one point is always and completely safe; not one age, not one position. We must fight; it is the law. He who puts down his weapons is lost; and, as long as life lasts, the enemy is there, seeking, under a thousand forms, to lead us into its traps and to make us lose first the life of faith, then faith itself."