What to fight against?
We would like to start today with St. Paul, who was a glorious and aware soldier of Christ. He knew the reason for his sufferings. It was not in vain. He knew where he had put his trust and did not have doubts about the power of God. “That is why I am experiencing my present sufferings; but I am not ashamed, because I know in whom I have put my trust, and I have no doubt at all that he is able to safeguard until that Day what I have entrusted to him. ” (1 Timothy 1:12) How many Christians today are all ashamed, they can only complain and murmur (which is the praise of the grubby , as Father Leo, SHJ would call the evil one) before God and men about their sufferings, their pain, about all bad that happens in their lives and do not accept anything that happens to them. Nothing is ever good! And by not being good they even come to say that God does not exist because they suffer too much. St. Thomas Aquinas have already addressed some of these matters in his Summa Theologiae and in