Practical Devotion of the Day: Promise to escape the lie

Always illicit. The worldly, and sometimes even the faithful, allow themselves the lie as a trivial matter, to avoid some evil, to spare a reproach, to escape punishment. Faith, based on God's command, Don't tell falsehood, clearly says that any lie is illegal, not only the harmful one, which, for the consequences, can be deadly, but also what is said for convenience, which , even if it is venial, it is always a sin, that is, an offense against God. What is your moral on the lie?

The habit of lying. Created to live in society, endowed with the word for mutual help as brothers of origin and for Redemption, called to do each other good: the lie changes society in a world of fraud and deception, the brothers in traitors. How ignoble it is to have honey in your mouth and gall in your heart! For a trifle to betray superiors, equals and inferiors! Do you have this bad habit too?

The lie everyone hates. A person, caught in the lie, blushes and feels dishonored; he says it, and then he hates it! What a spite in seeing ourselves deceived by the lies of others! A vile soul is called an abject spirit whoever lies. But God hates it much more, truth by essence; he does not esteem it lawfully even to save the whole world. Whoever speaks a lie will perish; he punished Ananias and Sapphira with death for one lie; and in Purgatory what punishment lies will have!

PRACTICE. - Promise to always run away from the lie: spend some time in silence for mortification.