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Archdiocese of San Francisco
One of the first effects of praying a daily holy hour will be to get rid of any evil that is in our life. Evil is not always to be overcome by combating it directly. St. Paul even suggests that certain types of mortification do not do away with certain sins.
One of the first effects of praying a daily holy hour will be to get rid of any evil that is in our life. Evil is not always to be overcome by combating it directly. St. Paul even suggests that certain types of mortification do not do away with certain sins.
From Hans Urs Von Balthasar’s Anthology of Sermons: This brings us to the decisive question: What is it that takes place on Holy Saturday? What kind of a day is this on which, as the old hymn says (and it is followed here by Hegel and Nietzsche), “God is dead”?
Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.