Temptations conquered help us grow in moral and spiritual strength, in love, in happiness – in holiness. If we overcome them, consolation from God comes: “To everyone who overcomes, I will give permission to eat of the tree of life that is in the paradise of God” (Rev 2:7).
In one of his writings from that year, Brito clearly refers to the enormous difficulties he faced daily: “Such is my relation for the year 1682. It all boils down to this: we have no human support to lean on, kings and princes oppose us, the powerful and learned ones do their best to expel us; and even so, thanks to a special protection of God Our Lord, who keeps us on this earth, we managed to spread His Holy Religion.”
Suddenly, we are not talking of Covid anymore.
Once we have removed the courageous announcement of our faith that frees, we have remained trapped in the slavery of the dictatorship of relativism, which oppresses.