The warfare of spiritual life

Last updated on: May 7, 2016 at 12:22 am by M° Aurelio Porfiri

The warfare of spiritual life 2016-05-07T00:22:11+02:00 M° Aurelio Porfiri

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Teacher-and-Student I am convinced that a meaningful and true spiritual life cannot be but a warfare. I am more and more disappointed with the fluffy Christianity we are living nowadays, in which everything has to look joyful and pretty. If there is no fight, if we are not like warriors, there is no real Christian life but just a parody of that. St. Paul has said it well: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith”. If there is no good fight, the faith is not there, it is just self assurance.

Lorenzo Scupoli, a spiritual writer from the 16th century wrote: “One of the requisites in the spiritual combat is perseverance in the continual mortification of our unruly passions; for never in this life are they utterly subdued, but take root in the human heart like weeds in fertile soil. This is a battle from which we cannot escape; ours is a foe we cannot evade. The fight against passion will last a lifetime, and he who lays down his arms will be slain.

Moreover, we must combat enemies who hate us with unquenchable fury, and are consecrated to our destruction. The more we would make friends of them, the more they would make derelicts of us.

But be not daunted by their strength or number, for in this war, he alone is conquered who voluntarily surrenders, and the entire power of our enemies is in the hands of that captain under whose banner we fight. And not only will He preserve us from treachery, but He will be our champion. He who is infinitely superior to all the foe will crown you with conquest provided that you, as a warrior, rely not on your own finite powers, but on His almighty power and infinite goodness”.

Once we enter in this kind of mentality, the combat can start and the war may be won.

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