Hi! Satan!

Hi! Satan!
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Hi! Satan, my friend!

Surprised at my calling you a friend?

No, you won't be surprised.

You know the truth.

Though with no love, you have helped me many a times to near God.

One who helps us can be called a friend, I think.

First, though you played a major role in the fall of our race,

you compensated it by playing an equally major role in our rise!

My spiritual Father has advised me to look even at negative elements positively.

The positive good in the negative fall is an opportunity to rise!

  How did you  play a  major role in our rise!

You have enabled us to be saved from sin

by being helpful in the process of crucifixion

whereby  Our Lord  sacrificed Himself

for the  amendment of our sins!

Can we forget your inducing the Jewish elders, the scribes and the Pharisees

to plot for and execute the Crucifixion of Our Lord?

You found your way into the heart of Judas,

one of the twelve

and made him betray Jesus to the plotters.

So you played a major role in our salvation history.

Even now you are busy helping us.

Every time you tempt us to do a sin, we turn to Jesus for help.

It is our nature to turn to God only when we are in difficulties.

You are creating innumerable situations for us to turn to God.

As many temptations,

so many additional opportunities

to pray to God

to give us the strength to overcome them.

Only weak students seek their teacher most.

Only the ill see their doctor often.

Only the most tempted will need God's grace abundantly.

Your temptations have the positive effect of our seeking God for the grace needed to overcome them.

You are always tempting us means we are always with God.

How nice of you!

When we are  sure  that there are spiritual enemies around us, 

do you think  that we  will leave our souls unprotected?

What do you think that Jesus has instituted seven sacraments for?

Just for fun or merely for celebrations?

No, for our souls' protection from your attacks.

As Long as we are under the protection of sacraments,

especially confession and Eucharist,

any number of Satans cannot touch us. 

You have mentioned in your letter that you have decided upon a new strategy.

No strategy will work, because  our church is build  on a rock.

"And I tell thee this in my turn,

that thou art Peter, and it is upon this rock that I will build my church;

and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it; "

Mind you, these are the words of Jesus.

If you continue your labour even after reading these lines,

there cannot be a greater fool than you anywhere!

Your statement that nowadays you are spending more time
in churches trying to damage the spirituality of the church goers is true to a certain extent.

I accept my inability to advise anybody in this respect

because people,

even big people,

argue

that dress is a personal affair

into which no outsider is permitted to enter.

They forget than anything that affects the public is a public affair.

I know that it is to cover up their modernism,

which is your product.

But God permits evil when there is some greater good can be drawn out of it.

What is that good, I don't know.

But don't be overjoyed on your success, it will backfire on you one-day.

How?  God alone knows.

That Jesus came in search of sinners is true, because we are all sinners.

Sin is your work on us,

But it is to make them holy,  thereby defeat your efforts.

When you say that you have come in search of holy people,

I know that you have some mischievous idea at the back of your head.

But Jesus is always with us and His Providence will make all your efforts fruitless.

In fact,  I sympathise with you you.

Poor Satan, wasting energy for nothing.

Bye!

Lourdu Selvam.