LIBERAS NOS A MALO FULL
LIBERAS NOS A MALO FREE

When I find myself trammelled by weakness, lukewarmness, lack of mortification and many other things, I realize that I must beg for help from the Lord. I am referring, not to the saints, who, as Saint Paul said, can do all things in Christ 142 142Philippians iv, 13.but to sinners like myself. Still, let us realize that what we are asking here-this deliverance from all evil-seems an impossibility, whether we are thinking of bodily ills, as I have said, or of imperfections and faults in God’s service. But if we try to banish bodily ills and trials-and who is without very many and various trials of such kinds?-is it not right that we should ask to be delivered from sin?

LIBERAS NOS A MALO FREE

It is useless, sisters, for us to think that, for so long as we live, we can be free from numerous temptations and imperfections and even sins for it is said that whosoever thinks himself to be without sin deceives himself, and that is true.

LIBERAS NOS A MALO FULL

If to any human being full of charity this is a great torment, what must it have been to the boundless and measureless charity of the Lord? And how right He was to beseech the Father to deliver Him from so many evils and trials and to give Him rest for ever in His Kingdom, of which He was the true heir.īy the word “Amen,” as it comes at the end of every prayer, I understand that the Lord is begging that we may be delivered from all evil for ever.

What was His whole life but a continuous death, with the picture of the cruel death that He was to suffer always before His eyes? And this was the least important thing, with so many offenses being committed against His Father and such a multitude of souls being lost. It is true, however, that we do not live so difficult a life or suffer such trials or such poverty as His Majesty had to bear. From this it can be seen how weary He must have been of living yet nowadays people are not weary even at a hundred years old, but always want to live longer. Luke xxii, 15.-and that was the last supper of His life. I think the good Jesus was right to ask this for Himself, for we know how weary of this life He was when at the Supper He said to His Apostles: “With desire I have desired to sup with you” 141 141St.

Treats of these last words of the Paternoster: “Sed libera nos a malo.

Liberas nos a malo