Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Control or surrender? (Sister of the Visitation of Holy Mary)

   The devil’s main trick is to get otherwise godly, committed people to ignore what God wants in order to advance what they want. Almost always, that never involves the cross. It never involves dying to self. 

--Qtd. in “Control or Surrender?”
A reflection by a Sister of the
Visitation of Holy Mary

Image source: Michelangelo Buonarotti, The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1487-1488), copied from an engraving of Martin Schongauer’s engraving of the same, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temptation_of_Saint_Anthony_in_visual_arts#/media/File:Michelangelo_Buonarroti_-_The_Torment_of_Saint_Anthony_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
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