Sunday Evangelium - Totus2us

Fr Marcus: "In his marvellous fictional book, The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis shows how a demon called Wormwood ingeniously seeks to destroy a particular soul. Although a humourous work, this story gives us great truths. The man, wittily called the client, sins and then repents, but keeps returning to the same sin, as if in a perpetual cycle. This is because he never thinks to address the reasons and causes for his falling into that sin. How many of us have found ourselves confessing the same sins over and over again. One of the reasons for our lack of progress is quite simply because we fail to tackle the real occasions for sin. To be tough on sin as Our Lord would have, we have to be tough on the causes of sin, and the occasions that bring about sin almost like clockwork are the first things we must address. Let's face it, and it's hard for our pride to do so, we're not as strong as we think we are; we're not as strong as we think to resist all sins in all situations. The occasions matter and it is to the