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<\/figure>If you are seeking something, pause for a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Restlessness brings no rewards. I have something to tell you that may interest you: “Be temperate, be vigilant!”. The Apostle Peter (1 Peter 5:8) said this to the recipients of one of his letters, he who was a restless disciple of Jesus, so much so that in the Garden of Olives he resorted to the sword, which Christ made him put away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would also like to repeat this to you, my friend who is listening to me!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Confucius said that even small excesses can ruin great plans. Be temperate! Drugs bring no rewards! Violence brings no rewards! Selfishness brings no rewards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Catechism of the Catholic church lists it among the cardinal virtues, and its synonyms are frugality, moderation, sobriety, order and balance. What can we say? The world loves excess; the media rewards it headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yet, we are all convinced that consumerism, even though we cannot help ourselves, brings no rewards: nature rebels, social crises increase, life is ruined!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gide – a tormented French writer – had reinvented the parable of the prodigal son, believing that really living lay in the willingness to have every experience; then he confessed that he had not found happiness in that either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Temperance… It is temperance that teaches you the pursuit of good, your own and that of others, and it is vested in charity. Noble charity! The charity has a link with God, that gives us a hand to descend the steps in the dark moments of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is not a virtue for the weak. Mary made it her lifelong companion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You should try it too!
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Fernando Cardinal Filoni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 2021)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n End of quote<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deus lo Vult<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today the Grandmaster reminds us to be vigilant and temperate and to look to Mother Mary as a great example on how to live life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12,11],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oessh-va","tag-grandmaster","tag-oessh-va"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}