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Temptations to sin can come from three sources, the world, the flesh and the devil. Our Lord could be tempted only externally, and only by the world and the devil. These tempters could exert their influence on Him only from outside; they could not affect His mind and His will. Nevertheless, He allowed such external temptation to molest Him in order to teach us how we should act in time of temptation.

Like Him, we must resist the first impulse to sin when it makes itself felt in our soul.
It is only when we act in this manner that we can hope to escape the worst evil that can befall us in life, sin. From time to time we should remind ourselves that life is a battle between good and evil and that if we wish to avoid sin we must fight courageously.

No misfortune that can come into our lives is as great an evil as mortal sin.

Sickness, loss of fortune, disgrace in the eyes of our fellowmen, even death cannot compare to the dreadful catastrophe of defiling our souls by even one mortal sin.

We must be imbued with the spirit of Christian faith to appreciate this truth. People of the world will lightly commit mortal sin day after day, and apparently not be troubled.

*No Catholic who accepts the teaching of his Church can regard sin as anything except a terrible tragedy.*

The momentary pleasure or gratification that sin gives bears no comparison to the ruin of soul and the rejection of sanctifying grace that result from sin. Mortal sin is truly the death of the soul, for it means that the life of grace has been deliberately cast out.

One who sins mortally subjects himself to the power of the evil spirit. He has cast God from his soul and accepted Satan as his master. He has yielded to the persuasion of the devil repeating the promise which he made to Christ nineteen centuries ago, “All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” He has refused to imitate Our Lord, whose reply to temptation was, “Begone, Satan.”

– Sermon of #archbishoplefebvre

📸my husband and I have been blessed to go further into the “desert” for silence — I tagged along with him to a work trip. 😉 But we are taking full advantage to make it a retreat within a “retreat,” Lent.

1. homeschooling at its finest. 2. my early reader 3. tummy time. 4. rose’s comp looking pretty in pink. 5. dragonfly ~~trying to hold~~ manhandling lil’ man 6. fun with father while the girls and I set up for the retreat

1. playing with his bed buddies (the doggies on his bedding). 2. sleeping for big sis, rose. 3. girlfriends garden. planted by sparkles and her friend. 4. his infamous eyebrow raise.

1. my lil’ man at 3 months. 2. retreat project made it to our craft tuesdays. summer bucket list (sbl). 3. shave ice in the rain. sbl. 4. swimming in the rain. sbl. 5. the kids had popsicles*pool*pancakes, in that order, all by 7:30am. sbl. 6. dad started a water war within minutes of his arrival from his week stay at camp sacred heart. sbl.

1. roasting hotdogs indoors. sbl. 2. drive-in movie. 3. papi’s theology lesson. 4. retreat sign for Rosa Mystica Girls’ Society.

1. neon flowers for retreat centerpieces. 2. the littles tested out my color blasts for the retreat. 3. color blast. 4. rose’s birthday cupcakes 5. bowling party. 6. party swag.

1. i’m happy to say that rose received her first phone at 18 years of age. 2. the only two boys invited to the party. 3. sibling love on graduation day. 4. on her way to graduation.