The Normal Course
Our senses, our inclinations, and the Evil One, roused to greater violence by our resistance, assault us more furiously, and our resistance naturally entails suffering. When St. Paul tells us: "Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil; for our wrestling is not against flesh and blood: but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in high places" (Eph. vi, 11, 12), he announces the continual combat which necessarily includes suffering.
-Book of the Professed.
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From Principles and Practices
Compiled by Rev. J. Hogan of The Catholic Missionary Society
Published by Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., Publishers To The Holy See
Nihil Obstat; Eduardus J. Mahoney, S.T.D. Censor deputatus.
Imprimatur; Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius generalis.
First printed in 1930
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