The Virtue of Persistence

THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for January 11th – 16th, 2016
Liturgical texts here

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THIS call “out of Babylon” into the desert, into the wilderness, into asceticism is truly a call into battle. For to leave Babylon is to resist temptation and to break at last with sin. And this presents a direct threat to the enemy of our souls. Continue reading