SMOKE IN THIS LIFE, NOT THE NEXT Sun, Sep 27 — The Duellist’s Debt (Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost) Cigar: Medium-Bodied Blend Drink: Buffalo Trace Bourbon Reflection: What abundance have I overlooked? Gratitude ripens when we recognize the sheer weight of mercy. Consider the chilling chronicle of the pious Christian duellist, slain on the field of false honor. By an extraordinary grace of final repentance, his soul escaped eternal perdition, yet divine justice assigned him a staggering sentence in Purgatory: to suffer until the consummation of the world. What seemed a fleeting instant of worldly pride on earth purchased centuries of purifying flame. We live surrounded by uncounted sacraments, answered prayers, and easy days, scarcely realizing the dreadful cost of venial debt. Sunday evening calls for quiet reverence. Cut a balanced, medium-bodied blend—something rolled with aged Dominican or Ecuadorian leaves that burn cool and steady. It brings gentle notes of cedar, lea...
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This blog is based on references in the Bible to fear. God wills that we “BE NOT AFRAID”. Vincit qui se vincit" is a Latin phrase meaning "He conquers who conquers himself." Many theologians state that the eighth deadly sin is fear. It is fear and its natural animal reaction to fight or flight that is the root cause of our failings to create a Kingdom of God on earth. This blog is dedicated to Mary the Mother of God. "
