How do you get lukewarm water? Easy – mix some hot and some cold, roughly in equal amounts. How do you get a lukewarm Catholic? Easy – mix into the baptized human soul, both spiritual heat (supernatural divine truth, love and light) and spiritual cold (natural love of the world, the praise of men, carnal pleasures, self-love) – in roughly equal proportions. Simply disregard the warnings in Scripture and try anyway to live a contradiction: an impossible “compromise,” a combination of love for God and love for Mammon. (See – Lk 16:13, 1Jn 2:15-17.)
Here are some observations of a Jesuit priest of the 1600’s, Fr. Louis Lallemant, SJ (d. 1635). In a book of his teachings, “The Spiritual Doctrine”, are notes from his lectures as teacher and spiritual director to seminarians, in the year 1630. He observed in his time, among religious congregations and orders, that the effect of lukewarm men or women in a religious congregation can be disastrous.
..... continued on RenewTheChurch.com
Here are some observations of a Jesuit priest of the 1600’s, Fr. Louis Lallemant, SJ (d. 1635). In a book of his teachings, “The Spiritual Doctrine”, are notes from his lectures as teacher and spiritual director to seminarians, in the year 1630. He observed in his time, among religious congregations and orders, that the effect of lukewarm men or women in a religious congregation can be disastrous.
..... continued on RenewTheChurch.com
