1 CORINTHIANS 5: 11-13
“But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.”
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PICCARRETA:
Aug. 28. “I recommend that you stay away from people who can do harm to your soul, because they can poison you.”
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BOH VOL 13 Nov. 22, 1921
“My daughter, the pain that most pierced Me in my Passion was the affectation of the Pharisees. They feigned justice, and they were the most unjust. They feigned sanctity, regularity, order, and they were the most perverted, outside of any rule, and in full disorder.
And while they pretended to honor God, they were honoring themselves, their self-interest, their own comfort. Therefore, light could not enter into them, because their affected manners were closing the doors to it, and pretense was the key which, with double locks, closing them to death, obstinately blocked even a few glimmers of light.
So much so, that Pilate, idolatrous, found more light than the very Pharisees, because everything he did and said started not from pretense, but, at most, from fear; and I feel more drawn toward the most perverted sinner, not false, than to those who are good but false.
Oh! how disgusted I am by one who in appearance does good, pretends to be good, prays, but inside nurses evil, self-interest; and while the lips are praying, his heart is far away from Me; and in the very act of doing good he is thinking of how to satisfy his brutal passions.
Then, a man who is false in the good that he apparently does and says is incapable of giving light to others, since he has shut the doors to it. So they act like incarnate devils, who many times attract men under the appearance of good; and these, in seeing this good, let themselves be drawn in; but right in the middle of the way, they make them fall into graver sins.
Oh! how much safer are the temptations under appearance of sin, than those under appearance of good. In the same way, it is safer to deal with perverted people than with good people, but false.
How much poison do they not hide? How many souls do they not poison? If it wasn’t for pretenses, and all let themselves be known for what they are, the root of evil would be removed from the face of the earth, and all would remain free of illusion.”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, I love You with your Will. And since Your Will fills Heaven and earth, my love will surround You everywhere, and my “I love You‟ will resound up there in the Heavens, and down to the bottom of the abysses. I adore You, I bless You, I praise You with Your Will, and I want to fill Heaven and earth with adorations, with blessings, with praises, with thanksgivings for You, My Jesus.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 11 October 2, 1913