DAILY CONTEMPLATION

November 25, 2025 ~ Hathor 16, 1742

So that faith might not fail in temptations, the Lord said, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation.” (Mt 26:41)
What is to ​“enter into temptation,” but to depart from faith?
For temptation advances as much as faith gives way: and so far temptation gives way, as faith advances.
For that you may know, Beloved, more plainly, that the Lord said,
“Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation” as touching faith lest it should fail and perish,
He said in the same place,
“This night has Satan desired to sift you as wheat, and I have prayed for you, Peter,
that your faith fail not.” (Lk 22:31-32)
St. Augustine