"Prisoners of the Devil"
"All you who do not live in penance and do not receive the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and who are caught up in vices and sins and go the way of evil concupiscence and the evil desires of your flesh, and who do not observe those things you have promised the Lord, and who serve the world with your body, becoming slaves to the instincts of the flesh and the devil whose children you are and whose works you do. You are blind, because you do not see the true light, our Lord Jesus Christ; you do not have spiritual wisdom, because you do not possess the Son of God, who is the true Wisdom of the Father, and that you are cursed for having turned away from God's commandments (cf. Ps 119:21). You see and know what you are doing, you know and still do what is evil; and so you knowingly lose your souls." --St. Francis, Letter to All the Faithful, First Version
This is an indictment of believers every time we quench the Holy Spirit. We open ourselves to the evil one and become vulnerable to his enticements.
"All you who do not live in penance and do not receive the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and who are caught up in vices and sins and go the way of evil concupiscence and the evil desires of your flesh, and who do not observe those things you have promised the Lord, and who serve the world with your body, becoming slaves to the instincts of the flesh and the devil whose children you are and whose works you do. You are blind, because you do not see the true light, our Lord Jesus Christ; you do not have spiritual wisdom, because you do not possess the Son of God, who is the true Wisdom of the Father, and that you are cursed for having turned away from God's commandments (cf. Ps 119:21). You see and know what you are doing, you know and still do what is evil; and so you knowingly lose your souls." --St. Francis, Letter to All the Faithful, First Version
This is an indictment of believers every time we quench the Holy Spirit. We open ourselves to the evil one and become vulnerable to his enticements.
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