The Messenger of the Sacred Heart for India March 1918

“ For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the efes and the pride of life ” (I. [...] To the “ concupiscence of the flesh ” He opposes self-denial; to the “ concupiscence of the eyes ” spiritual poverty ; and to the “pride of life” that sweetest of the Beatitudes “ Blessed are they that mourn.” The service of the one or the other of Christ or of Satan we must all of us choose. [...] 78 in God's omnipotence as is shown in the marvellous deeds of so many saints ; and the pain endured in the mortification of the senses and the powers and faculties of the soul is amply repaid by the glory that is revealed in it. [...] The place was deserted and the old priest con1d not account for the absence of the men in no way until walking over to one of the buildings that stood on the brink of the great excavation lie found the cause in the broken cylinder of the huge hoisting engine. [...] Hitherto what the Sacred Text has told is the general concern of all the world —the Origin of Man the Expulsion from Paradise the Deluge the Tower of Babel ; now all is concentrated on one man and the family the race of which he is the Father.