With the Holy Spirit

Thursday, November 29, 2007

After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.

-- St. Ignatius of Loyola

This saint is funny. He adds an element of truth to spiritual battle. As Eugene, my brother said, being a Christian is not possible, it is impossible!!!! But yet, in God's eyes, He makes all things impossible, possible =D

I've this stuck onto my desk since semester started, from Saint Padre Pio.
5 rules of spiritual growth:
1) Weekly confession (Something out of the picture till I get baptized next Pentecost, thank God for Fr. Christophe just hearing my confessions every week anyway.)
2)Daily Communion (hey, brothers and sisters, daily communion! St. Catherine of Siena survived on the Eucharist alone for many years of her life!)
3) Spiritual Reading (God's word. Daily Mass readings)
4) Meditation (Rosary!!! Adoration... Fr. asked me what I talk to Papa about..mm. Secret.)
5) Examination of Conscience (Our only weapons of truth and love)

"Pray, Hope and Don't worry"

Ahh. Right. Easier said than done. But can one lah... =) With faith.

-Yours truly ;