To pursue a spiritual life, you have to fight. It takes strength and courage, for it is not a simple confrontation but a continuous battle with the Prince of Darkness
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In Christian life there are three enemies: the demon, the world and the flesh. It’s about the everyday struggle with greed, lust, gluttony, arrogance, pride, envy: all vices which are the wound of original sin.
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And to think, they wanted us to believe that the Devil was a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea of evil. However, the Devil exists and we have to fight against him.
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Pope Francis
A beautiful struggle
Morning meditation, October 30, 2014
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