Newsletter March 1st 2020 (First Sunday of Lent)
|- Temptation in one form or another is unavoidable. Honestly examining our daily experience will reveal many hints of temptation.
- We can recognise impulses and tendencies contrary to our conscience.
- To justify these temptations and make them socially acceptable and politically correct — is itself an insidious temptation.
- We claim the right to decide for ourselves what is right and wrong, to draw new boundaries of acceptable behaviour, setting aside what God may want of us.
- This is like Adam wanting to eat the forbidden fruit. Our growth to Christian maturity calls for some moral struggling, to follow the path of Jesus.