Thursday, October 28, 2010

Prayers & Reflections for October 28

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER II
Thoughts in War Time


God is not to be called "Good" because He does our will, nor evil because He does not.

Because there is a God, this war is not hell. God permits it to happen only for a greater good presently unseen.

The war is more like Purgatory than Hell, for through its refining flames we were meant to have the dross of our ma­terialism burned away...

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons

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