I find that Satan always starts by taking joy from my soul and makes me vulnerable to anxiety. Satan deceives me into believing that being with Christ makes for an uninteresting vacuously empty existence and tries to instil a dissatisfaction with the life of grace. But this destruction of inner peace is essentially the work of Satan.
Apart from and in addition to the sacraments, these thoughts of sadness for me can be defeated by using an hour of conversation with Christ in Church in Christ's …
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