DAILY CONTEMPLATION

October 18, 2026 ~ Paope 8, 1743

Vice mimics virtue, and the tares strive to be thought wheat,
growing like the wheat in appearance, but being detected by good judges from the taste.
The devil also transfigures himself into an angel of light;
not that he may re-ascend to where he was,
for having made his heart hard as an anvil, he has henceforth a will that cannot repent;
but in order that he may envelope those who are living an angelic life
in a mist of blindness, and a pestilent condition of unbelief…
We have need therefore of divine grace, and of a sober mind, and of eyes that see
St. Cyril of Jerusalem