Episode 58 -- Imitation of Christ III.20 -- On Acknowledging our Own Weakness; the Miseries of this Life

We read about the need to acknowledge our own weaknesses. We are so apt to sin. The Church speaks of this tendency to sin as concupiscence. We want to do what is right. We know what is right. And yet we keep putting ourselves in situations where our ability to resist temptation is so small. How frail we are. But how powerful the Lord is!