Sunday, July 8, 2018

Next Occasion of Sin


“Do you want to correct yourself of your faults? Anticipate and avoid the occasions in which you have succumbed; if you do not do this, the same causes will produce the same effects. Examine your life and you will see that the occasions and the dangerous companies are the ones that, every day, make you relapse into the same sins. A pilot does not approach but trembling to the place where before he was shipwrecked; a convalescent does not even dare to touch the fruit that made him sick; only the sinner looks for the occasions that lost him. What need is there to go to such a part, where each day it is necessary to overcome or perish?”

San Jerome

TO PUT OURSELVES NEEDLESSLY IN AN NEAR OCCASION OF SIN, CONSTITUTES A MORTAL SIN IN ITSELF.