#sorrysatan

[booksrosesandsonicscrewdrivers]

I was in a church play when I was a kid. We were doing a musical about the life of Jesus and for the life of me I could never remember the guy who played Satan’s name. Just for reference, the Satan guy was this big burly bear of a man, kinda like Hagrid with a more modern haircut. One day for practice my mom and I had made cookies and wanted to share them with the rest of the cast. The guy who played Satan was late, but came in as we were passing out the cookies. And the first thing he saw was this tiny, 11-year-old girl holding a Tupperware up to him, who just looks him in the eyes and deadpans “Do you wanna cookie Satan?”

[ultrateenagecandystudent-blog]

Its Jesus Faist

[strugglingcatholic]

Note well how Jesus responds [to temptation]: He doesn’t dialogue with Satan, as Eve did in the terrestrial Paradise. Jesus knows well that one can’t dialogue with Satan, because he is so cunning. For this reason, instead of dialoguing, as Eve did, Jesus chooses to take refuge in the Word of God and to respond with the power of this Word. Let us remind ourselves of this in the moment of temptation…: not arguing with Satan, but defending ourselves with the Word of God. And this will save us.

Pope Francis, Angelus address 3/9/2014