Category: Reflection

STEP 16 On love of money or avarice. 1. Many learned teachers treat next, after the tyrant just described, the thousand-headed demon of avarice. We, unlearned a...

Step 15 On incorruptible purity and chastity to which the corruptible attain by toil and sweat. Foreword We have heard from that raving mistress gluttony who ha...

8. The beginning of love of money is the pretext of almsgiving, and the end of it is hatred of the poor. So long as he is collecting he is charitable, but when ...

34. Let us ask this foe, or rather this supreme chief of our misfortunes, this door of passions, this fall of Adam, this ruin of Esau, this destruction of the I...

Step 14 On the clamorous , yet wicked master—the stomach. 1. We have been attacking ourselves in everything that we have said, but this is specially so when we ...

“Repentance is the renewal of baptism. Repentance is a contract with God for a second life. A penitent is a buyer of humility. Repentance is constant distrust o...

Step 13 On despondency. 1. As we have already frequently said, this—we mean despondency—is very often one of the branches of talkativeness, and its first child....

The Divine Liturgy is the most important divine office. There are countless articles and books describing it. In the same way that the Liturgy is versatile, its...

Step 12 On lying. 1. The offspring of flint and steel is fire; and the offspring of chatter and joking is lying. 2. A lie is the destruction of love, and perjur...

Step 11 On talkativeness and silence. 1. In the preceding chapter we spoke briefly of how extremely dangerous it is to judge others and of how this vice steals ...