Day 12: “A Sensitive Subject”  

1 Thess 4:1–7

Finally, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God; that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned you. For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness. Read More

“PURITY SPREADS LIGHT”

Beloved Father, in today’s reading You exhort us, through Your apostle, to abstain from all impurity. It is terrible to see how this vice darkens a person’s life and prevents them from perceiving the resplendent light that emanates from the purity of the holy angels, from the many virgins who were willing to give their lives to preserve it, and from the radiant splendor of the most pure Virgin. Moreover, all this is eclipsed when the spiritual impurity of false doctrines penetrates our Church, perhaps even accompanied by other forms of impurity.

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