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The Much That Will Be Required
But a weak person will say: "These bad thoughts take away my devotion, and they usually come to me when I approach devotion and good works. Sometimes they make me feel like stopping the good that I have started so...Read more
What does the Rite of Exorcism call him?
The list of condeminatory names for the devil contained in the three prayers in the original 1614 Rite of Exorcism (and its 1952 revision) is nothing short of impressive. The inventive and aggressive terms that the Church uses to describe...Read more
What do we call the devil and why?
There are three common names by which most people describe the font of all evil: the devil, Satan and Lucifer; each of these names comes to English from a different language. The name "devil" comes from the Greek word diabolos,...Read more
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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The Gifts of the Magi
"The Magi came from the East. How did they know about Christ? Probably from the prophecy of Daniel concerning the seventy weeks of years; they counted the revolution of the stars. In any case, they knew, and they brought gold because he was king, incense because he was a priest, but also myrrh. That's the way he was buried, with a hundred pounds of spices and myrrh. What would our mothers have thought if the neighbors brought in embalming fluid when we were born? Everywhere there was the shadow of suffering."