𝔗𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔖𝔬𝔲𝔩

Who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that having died to sin, we might live to righteousness; by His WOUNDS YOU WERE HEALED. 1 Peter 2:24

As the sun makes brilliant the darkest clouds, so does Christ, by the splendour of His grace, convert desolation into consolation, temptations into victories, war into triumph. -St. Ambrose

"Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it." ~Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ IMPERIVM

“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.”  ~Marcus Aurelius IMPERIVM

Happy Father’s Day

“All sodomites, men & women, died all over the earth, as St. Jerome said commenting on the verse  "The light was born for the just" (Ps 96:11). This was to make it clear that Jesus Christ was born to reform nature and to promote chastity.” St. Bonaventure (Sermon 21, In Nativitate Domini, apud Catolicismo)

God’s choice to predestine a specific people for glory is not why any man is condemned. Rather, man is solely under condemnation for his willful rebellion against God and his refusal to believe in the Son, who shed His blood so they may receive forgiveness and eternal life.

Here is a description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, between the law of God and the law of sin. The law may discover sin, and convince of sin, but it cannot conquer and subdue sin, witness the predominancy of sin in many that are under very strong legal convictions. It discovers the defilement, but will not wash it off. It makes a man weary and heavy laden (Matt. 11:28), burdens him with his sin; and yet, if rested in, it yields no help towards the shaking off of that burden; this is to be had only in Christ. The law may make a man cry out, O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me? and yet leave him thus fettered and captivated, as being too weak to deliver him (Rom. 8:3), give him a spirit of bondage to fear, Rom. 8:15. Now a soul advanced thus far by the law is in a fair way towards a state of liberty by Christ, though many rest here and go no further. Felix trembled, but never came to Christ. It is possible for a man to go to hell with his eyes open (Num. 24:3–4), illuminated with common convictions, and to carry about with him a self-accusing conscience, even in the service of the devil. He may consent to the law that it is good, delight to know God’s ways (as they, Isa. 58:2), may have that within him that witnesses against sin and for holiness; and yet all this overpowered by the reigning love of sin.