*PSALM 121: 5–7*
“The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all evil; He will keep your life.”
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*Piccarreta:*
Oct. 22. “Prayer will defend us from the shadow of the enemy, and will cover us with the divine shadow.”
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*BOH VOL 1*
“Jesus Christ taught me that the most effective means so that the soul would remain free of any vain apprehension, of any doubt, of any fear, was to protest before Heaven, the earth and the very demons, that she does not want to offend God, even at the cost of her life, and that she does not want to consent to any temptation of the devil.
And this, as soon as the soul feels the coming of the temptation, in the act of the battle, if she can, and as she begins to feel free – and also during the course of the day.
By doing this, the soul will not waste time in thinking about whether she has consented or not, because the mere memory of the protest will already give her calm; and if the devil tries to disturb her, she will be able to answer that if she had the intention of offending God, she would not have protested the opposite. In this way, she will remain free of any fear.
Now, who can say the rage of the devil, since all his tricks resolved into confusion for himself, and there where he thought he would gain, he would lose, and his very temptations and tricks were used by the soul in order to make acts of reparation and love for her God by acting in this way.”
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*PRAYER OF THE DAY:*
“My Jesus, I want to make Your pains, Your prayers and all of Yourself, my own, in such a way that You may find in me another You.
In these times You want great satisfactions, and only one who makes You his own can
give them to You.
That which the Father found in You-– glory, delight, love, satisfactions whole and
perfect, and for the good of all – may You find in me, like as many other that match You.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 11 Dec. 9, 1916