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THE WEAPONS OF THE SPIRIT

01
Let us seek our inspiration from great models and get
down to work. (Letters 10)

02

Let us learn to detach ourselves completely from
ourselves, our likes, our will, our judgment. In all our
actions let us seek only to do as perfectly as possible the holy will of
God. (Writings 359)

03
Let us arm ourselves, and let us do it soon. Prayer,
detachment from the things that pass away, zeal for God’s
glory, hunger and thirst for justice, intense work for souls,
the spirit of sacrifice, of mortification and penance: these are the
weapons we must furbish while we rally closely around the same
banner, ready to respond to the same call, members of the standing
army of the Church, who has called us to defend her against powerful
and numberless foes. (Letters 26)

04
Our nerves are tense, our hearts beat fast, our spirit soars
on the wings of prayer, above the horizons of the future.
We are determined to fight, dragging this wretched flesh
of ours on the bloody field of battle, without uttering one bitter word
or withdrawing one step from the path of martyrdom. (Letters 23)

05
In the fervor of our zeal we must remember not to yield
to discouragement if we suddenly strike those unexpected
reefs that remind us of the trail and wretched nature that
we bear. (Letters 31)

06
The knights of the Middle Ages were always alert lest a
moments cowardice should rob them of the hard-won