Don’t become a sourpuss, advised Pope Francis:
85. One of the more serious temptations
which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism
which turns us into querulous and disillusioned
pessimists, sourpusses. Nobody can go off
to battle unless he is fully convinced of victo-
ry beforehand. If we start without confidence,
we have already lost half the battle and we bury
our talents.
We do it half-heartedly.
March on, Jesus told the world’s greatest evangelizer, Paul:
While painfully aware of our own
frailties, we have to march on without giving in,
keeping in mind what the Lord said to Saint Paul:
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is
made perfect in weakness (2 Cor 12:9).Christian triumph is always a cross, yet a cross which
is at the same time a victorious banner borne
with aggressive tenderness against the assaults of
evil.
Ne illegitimis carborundum, which is…
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