Posted on 04/02/2022 7:41:38 AM PDT by GonzoII
The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has encouraged Christians to not allow the news of the moment to take over their minds, wills, and feelings.“Let us wage our invisible warfare against untruth and all that is trying to paralyze our will and seize our inner spiritual world,” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said in a video message issued on April 1.
Especially during the season of Lent, he said, Christians should evaluate whether “certain news that you read or see on television is news that tries to captivate your mind, will, or feelings, trying to become the inner occupier of your person....”
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“certain news that you read or see on television is news that tries to captivate your mind, will, or feelings, trying to become the inner occupier of your person.”
I find that in watching the news this tends to be more true than just reading about it, but even in just reading the news I know when to just cut it off.
It can be challenging in our times.
I totally fail in this because whatever significant current event is going on dominates my consciousness. News junky.
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