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http://saint-mary.net/books/
thats the link and the title of the book is called Diabolical war. it is under Contemplations on the Ten Commandments Volume IV........hopefully this helps on whatever you are questioning or asking or having trouble with
or that we should just ignore it?
or that when it comes to wars, we should always try to do the right thing?
lol
God Bless! :)
he edited it
u should say
i have been thinking of what you wrote for 10 minutes
u need to stop doin that man
lol
why? maybe I won't
how old are u again?? this isn't a joke.. people come here to benefit from others questions as well as their own questions.. not to waste time on empty useless threads. PLEASE STOP!!!
I am pretty sure you are old enough to stop yourself from pressing the edit button.
Unless you are possessed by a devil which i highly doubt, but Mike i gotta say, you do crack me up sometimes
Maybe I can see you peoples opinion of this matter. I agree with pope shenouda's words
b) A person who lives in purity of heart away from carnal
offences.
He lives entirely on guard, he does not read anything which may
cause him to stumble. He neither looks at any offensive scenes
nor associates with any persons who may cause him to stumble,
nor listens to any offensive talk. Thus he keeps his thoughts
pure and nothing unholy enters his heart. The devil wants to
fight this chaste person, but cannot offer him a visible stumbling
block because he would refuse it surely. What would he do
then?
He opens the way for him to be a spiritual guide to lead the
youth to chastity.
He argues with him that he should not live in chastity alone,
leaving the poor youth to fall everyday without offering them
good advice which may save them from what they are in He
tells him to hearken to the words of the apostle, " He who turns
a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death
and cover a multitude of sins." (James 5:20). He goes on
convincing him to accept this vital spiritual service until he is
convinced and agrees to guide those who come to him... Then
comes the next step: In order that his guidance be practical,
he ought to listen to their problems and faults. They
proceed to fill his ears with their news and tales of their failing
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which may be in details and perhaps some of these tales are
offensive. The chaste guide listens to what he used to keep
away from hearing, and gets acquainted with what he never
liked to know; what he tried to avoid, now fills his ears with
his complete approval... and everyone offers him a new picture
or various pictures of sin.
Through guidance, our man finds his mind filled with foul
pictures.
He comes to know things which spoil the purity of his mind and
defile him with news and tales which, "...it is shameful even to
speak of " (Eph 5:12). Even if they do not offend him or
arouse sinful emotions within him, they would at least defile his
mind as if he has picked strange fruits from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
If he tries to move away, the devil would say to him, "And
what about those youth?"
They might have got attached to him, and found comfort in his
guidance. They might trouble his conscience by telling him that
they would return to their sins if he left them; and they might
insist that he go on helping them to stand on their feet... Thus,
what happened to Lot the righteous would happen to him, "for
that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his
righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their
lawless deeds." (2 Pet 2:8). Our brother here may be vexing
himself with hearing only and not by seeing; yet what he hears
may fill his mind with pictures which he has never seen before,
as if he has seen in reality.
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Who knows, perhaps this guide would fall, at least by
thought and heart!
He could have sent them from the beginning to a spiritual father
and relieved himself but the devil involved him or threw him
onto the beginning of the way and he accepted in good faith not
knowing how the matter would develop with him.
He may succeed in the end to transfer them to spiritual fathers,
but after his mind has stored many tales and news which destroy
his initial purity and put new knowledge in his mind, of which
Solomon the wise says, "... he who increases knowledge
increases sorrow." (Eccl.1:18).
Psalm 46:9
Matthew 24:6
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.