Solitary Soul

  SPIRITUAL WEIGHT LOSS Mario D’Couto “For the just one will fall seven times and he shall rise again”                                                                                       Proverbs 24:16             It’s been about a week since we have celebrated Easter and today we celebrated another great feast in the Church, the feast of the Divine Mercy, which lays emphasis on God’s love and mercy for us. In as much as we can’t do anything to ‘earn’ our salvation (because it is a free gift fro...

  WHY SUFFER ? Mario D’Couto   God doesn’t just give the hardest battles to His toughest soldiers but He also creates the toughest soldiers out of life’s hardest battles.               There is a joke that goes thus, “Many people want to go to heaven but nobody wants to die” . While death is often understood as no life, death can also be understood in dying to ourselves, our egos, our anger or whatever that it may be that we would like to get rid of. In his book, “Life of Christ” , Bishop Fulton Sheen tells us that there are two kinds of philosophies of life, Ø   First the feast then the hangover Ø   First the fast then the feast             Deferred joys purchased by sacrifices are always the sweetest and most enduring. Christianity begins not with sunshine but with defeat. Sunshine religions that begin with psychic elation end often in disi...