By the end of
this month (April) it will be a whole year ever since I started walking
completely and fully the path of Chastity. The last trigger was my Theology Of
the Body Speaker training workshop. After that my way back to Bolivia was
appointed. I had little clue what was I going to do back in country, but I had
full confidence in what God was doing. After all it took all my courage and all
my pride to surrender to Him and accept His will.
In TOB words: “Chastity
includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom.
The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or
he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy.”
(CC 2339)
Last Saturday
(April 13), the path to become a consecrated Lay Missionary of Charity was
open, and now I’m officially an aspirant to discover if this call is mine.
Unlike other people, I’ve found a great delight and strength in weekly
adoration and in trying to pray the Rosary daily. Prayer is such a wonderful
dialogue you can have with God. The Rosary is such a wonderful weapon against
wicked and evil.
Temptation is
not absent. But I have the feeling that the moment I depart myself from a life
of prayer, it won’t be so “easy” to avoid it. I often wonder if for many is
easier to just give in and try to justify a sinful life than to hang on to
Christ’s hand and fight next to Him.
Eph 6:11 Be clothed in the armor of
God, so that you may be able to stand against the treachery of the devil.
Eph 6: 16-18 In all things, take up
the shield of faith, with which you may be able to extinguish all the fiery
darts of the most wicked one. And take up the helmet of salvation and the sword
of the Spirit (which is the Word of God).Through every kind of prayer and
supplication, pray at all times in spirit, and so be vigilant with every kind
of earnest supplication, for all the saints.