Topic: Evil

The Catechumenate, and the annual Lenten journey, are about writing the Word of God into our hearts so that it can protect us from evil and bear fruits of righteousness.

In the face of human evil, God has made a personal commitment to persevere in loving us and drawing us towards fulfilment.

Our struggles against evil, temptation and suffering are all framed by the security of God’s unshakable love and resolve to bring us safely to fullness of life.

The Cross is the tree at which we come to know the fullness of good and evil, and as we choose to bear the consequences of good and evil, it becomes for us the tree of life.

In the face of powerful evil, our choice like Jesus’s choice is between the natural human instincts of flight or fight, and the third way of obedience to God.

As the victim of the ultimate in human evil, the risen Christ is the One who can offer the complete forgiveness, to us, and through us to the rest of the world.

Christ crucified is both a sign of the ultimate consequence of evil, and of the ultimate victory of Christ over evil through the power of suffering love.

The demonic forces of our culture and time colonise our lives but if we turn to Christ, he will drive away the demons and fill us with his Spirit. His truth will set us free.

Faced with the callous injustice of the world, it takes tenacious trust in the vision of God’s just reign to survive.

Destructive evil is all around us and within us, but God has not given up on us.

The forces seeking to destroy any chance of real Christian living are formidable, but so are the weapons God gives us.

Sin is a seemingly objective force for evil within us that can only be addressed when it’s out in the open before a merciful God.