Lent is a time to establish peace in your heart. Opportunity for the sacrament of reconciliation, correction, reconsideration of opinions, attitudes, opinions that destroy peace within, joy. Therefore, the words of Jesus apply: “Whoever wants to follow me, let him deny himself …” (Lk 9:23).

Sprinkling the head with ash is a symbolic gesture of a new beginning. The ash is created by burning something, not just last year’s branches blessed on May Sunday. Fire destroys, but at the same time allows you to start a new life. During combustion, the action of fire generates heat and light. It is possible to deduce from them what people and God expect from us. Christ does not want our destruction, but our life. Ash is actually dust. Faith teaches us that our natural life will end in the sign of dust. The body succumbs to destruction, only the soul passes by death into a new life, when the glorified body will follow it at the resurrection. Lent time and the thought of the graveyard, death, and what will follow for each of us is not unnecessary. Vice versa. Christ’s suffering and death ends for us with the Easter Hallelujah, the resurrection when Christ overcame death so that we may have eternal life for me.

New life is also connected with ashes. They are being rebuilt on the hearth. A new, more beautiful, more beneficial one arises when one understands that life must go on. Let us remember another picture: In the fast, gardeners make final preparations to make the harvest rich. However, they will not protect themselves from frost. Therefore, the nobility, new varieties of trees, more resistant to frost to make the crop safer. However, when a gardener expects frost, by setting fire and using smoke in the garden, he can at least partially protect the crop unless the frost is too strong.

That is why a Christian does everything, thinks, acts, is not satisfied with a smaller one, but longs for great ideals. It is time to fast in fasting that we will not be affected by disgust, but will be open to the needs of the soul and the salvation of ourselves or others. We realize that a living desire for God will save us from mediocrity and conformism. Frequent encounters with Christ during Lent in prayer, fasting, alms will enrich our spiritual life with new light and guide us on the path to Christ as his witnesses. Lent is also a challenge to show the world that it is wrong to underestimate, ironize, and practice fasting practices. Yes, fasting in the spirit of weight loss, diseases can survive another time. However, in the time of liturgical fasting, many unite, and thus united spiritually and physically in prayer, we can overcome ourselves, and encourage, inspire to change others.

Let us remember something from Lent time in our lives that can serve us for concrete deeds. Let’s live fasting together. For example, we strengthen the fraternal communion that we are to live to the full in heaven. Let us protect ourselves from evil example, offense, sin.

If you want to be happy here on earth, keep and cultivate a merry mind in all circumstances. Remember that man is meant to be happy. You have to know yourself. Try to gain only pleasant, uplifting feelings. Don’t bother your soul with everyday worries, a gloomy mood. Never be angry, cultivate contentment, avoid evil. Fear, envy, anger, anger, quarrels are a break for the soul; they harm the body they cause various diseases. Don’t delay what you can do right away. Happiness depends on the person himself. The human soul is wonderfully rich in talents and abilities that it can exercise. People can’t live. They can’t organize everything they have entirely in themselves. Weaknesses, moods, passions enslave a person and distract from happiness. Such a person does not live his real life. He who can control himself can turn his life into happiness. We must achieve satisfaction with every word, thought, feeling. Everything that comes from the soul should be beautifully noble. Without emotion and love, human coexistence and happiness cannot be achieved. You have to trust yourself. And a strong will help you to trust. Strong will is a source of energy. A man endowed with a strong will has confidence in himself and is not disappointed by defeats. Always choose good and useful things. Don’t be a skeptic, but live in your presence. The past with its suffering is over. Ignore your difficulties and failures. Be a balanced person. A balanced person is one who lives by reason, will, and feelings. People who do not believe in God destroy their happiness by suppressing conscience; lawmaking follows because they do not come from the right foundation; they believe that God does not predetermine moral laws but that they have evolved over the millennia as the most expedient order and that every ethical or legal the form originates only in expediency. Therefore, they do not recognize absolute justice. They claim that every practicality is the only relative, so morality and justice are also determined. For every individual, it is not always only what feels like a moral duty that is good because moral consciousness can be subverted, suppressed by a wrong upbringing. It would be a mistake to base morality on one’s own will and not on the will of God, the legislator. God is the absolute good and the foundation of everything. God has determined the way to happiness for man. It depends on the person whether he will walk this path and thus achieve his satisfaction. Of course, this path is not easy and simple. Those who think they will find happiness in material things are wrong.

. Ashes on the heads, a sign of the beginning of Lent

With their melody and lyrics, Lent songs are one of the factors that call for a change in everyday things, duties, and values. Let us not refrain only from the flesh of the flesh, but let us guard against anger, and from sin, and all iniquity. After the carnival days, when it was time for outdoor entertainment, Lent appeals to a serious and responsible repentance approach.

Let’s begin with Jesus’ challenge: “When you go to pray, go to your room, close the door behind you and pray to your Father, who also sees in secret” (Mt 6: 6). In addition to prayer, he talks about fasting and almsgiving. These three practices are the realization of today’s ashes on their heads.

Prayer brings God closer. In it and through it, we know God, his goodness, love, mercy. In prayer, we can experience the closeness of God. The time has come for prayer to take precedence over other values ​​that we have preferred. In particular, common prayer, in the family, among friends, a visit to the church even on weekdays, joint and personal devotion of the Way of the Cross, contemplation on the suffering of the Lord Jesus, the prayer of the rosary, study and reading the Scriptures. This quantity can be alternated, used to penetrate the mystery of the love of Christ, who suffered, died for us.

An important factor in fasting is fasting, staying and restricting food, and sharing food with those who do not. Fasting is a time to give up, limit other, pleasant, permissible things, such as noisy entertainment, limit watching television, listen to the radio, read non-spiritual literature, and participate in events and activities where the soul and spiritual life are suppressed or limited. It is recommended to give up things that we normally consume during the year – such as cigarettes, coffee, alcohol. It is true that this renunciation, restraint, is strenuous and requires strong courage, real motive, free conviction, but also the joy that we are doing something more for the growth of our faith, the consolidation of moral principles, the expansion of knowledge about God, the Church, salvation.

In fasting, under the influence of grace, working on ourselves, we can make decisions we have never had the strength to do before. Break up with sin, especially with the near opportunity for corruption, and it can be things, places, events, and people. Lent is a time of grace; when looking at the suffering and death of Jesus Christ, we are more open to class and, under their influence, work on ourselves, strengthen the family, put in order relationships in the family, among neighbors, friends, in the workplace.

Lent time can also be used for alms. To make an order between our things and sort out the old-fashioned, unnecessary, and give up something to make life easier for others, make life more pleasant, make us happy, make them feel their love. Alms does not only mean giving out of abundance but also knowing how to accept personal needs.

The real Christian life is to protect formalities in religious acts and materialism. Is yeast needed? Jesus warns us to watch the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod (cf. Mk 8, 15).

At that time, the apostles did not understand Jesus’ admonition. Their thoughts were not By God’s thoughts; they thought only of earthly things. That’s why Jesus did them he despises not to think temporal, but to draw to the depths, to look like God: not to the outer face, but the heart (cf. 1Sam 16: 7). How yeast helps ferment the dough on bread, so this symbol becomes a sign of the human interior, a change of life. The leaven of the Pharisees means their hypocrisy and formality, to be based on external religious acts. They do not live according to how they teach. They read the Saints writing, pray long, give alms, but not convert, improve, and please God, but to be praised and admired by people. However, they are inside empty. God doesn’t like them. They desire only profit, power, and fame. The leaven of Herod means life in comfort, in religious indifference. Herod is the type of person who can agree with everyone. He can do it compromises on both sides. He is an outstanding Catholic; for others, a liberal, Democrat, and who else. A man of a thousand faces. It is adaptable and changeable like a plasticizer, a man without a backbone. Its primary motto is profit: only to make something dripping from it. We can safely say about such a person that where wind, tade mantle. Unfortunately, Herod and the Pharisees were not extinct. Even today, they have different forms, and they infest their surroundings and our hearts with their thoughts and way of life.

Modern today we call it consumerism, indifference, materialism, pretense. How much of it has become domesticated in our hearts? And let’s ask ourselves: Am I not such a Pharisee or Herod for my surroundings? St. Paul said, “Don’t you know that a little leaven leavened the whole dough? Clean the old leaven, that you may be a new way ”(1 Cor 5: 6-7). Housewives certainly know the dough fast. It sours if they mix a little fresh yeast in it and leave it in a warm place. Yeast has the power to transform from within. For example, a small amount is enough. Similarly, a small batch of growths is enough to disturb the village’s peace; a small group of drunks drew other colleagues among themselves; two women standing in the middle of the street laying on other neighbors “stick” themselves and talk about whom they can. But how hard it is to transform the other way around!
Jesus is calling us today to become good bread and good, that is, good
his, leaven. And thou shalt keep the leaven of the Pharisees, that is, of hypocrisy, and the leaven of Herod, that is, indifference and consumerism, does not mean isolating oneself from the world, but fulfilling it with God’s word, God’s thoughts, and especially the Eucharist. God can transform from within into good bread, which will be a joy and strength for our surroundings. But at the same time, we become the leaven that turns our surroundings into God’s kingdom by the power of the Holy Spirit who is in us. For what is in our heart is even on the tongue and in life – it cannot be hidden. Let us become the useful leaven of Jesus Christ, that it may be fulfilled as soon as a possible prayer from our Father’s prayer: “Thy kingdom come” (Mathew 6:10)

Our whole life is interwoven with various symbols, signs to us; they serve for better communication. For example, when I tell you, ‘If I give you hand sign when you stand up, “you will wait for this sign, and when I’ll show him, you’ll know you have to stand up. If anyone came later, already he will not understand it. Or the neighbor will tell the neighbors, ‘If they have milk, then ring me at the gate. ” In this way, people create signs and signs that they knew what or when to do it. Both of these sides of the movement understand and expect him.

The Gospel of St. Mark describes Jesus in confrontation with the Pharisees. They come to him, not to listen to him but to argue with him. Nevertheless, that they have seen many miracles, they ask him for a unique sign from heaven, and St. Mark adds, “that they might tempt him” (Mark 8:11).
In the biblical understanding, temptation does not mean seducing someone as it is in today’s performance, but to be tested to test or improve man’s qualities, as God tested Abraham, for example. But it also means evil intent to point out his weaknesses or lead him to do wrong, as he did the devil in the wilderness when Jesus fasted. Even today, many people say, “I won’t believe it until I see it.” they will see, looking for various rational explanations, just so that they do not have to acknowledge God’s existence so that they do not have to change their comfortable life. And so let’s ask together with Jesus: “Why does this generation ask for a sign” (Mark 8:12)?

Why do we long to see various miracles, healing, unusual phenomena? To strengthen your faith or out of sheer curiosity? After all, God surrounds us with different things everyday signs, such as the birth of a new life, waking up in the morning, a new day, the Church itself, which lasts 2,000 years and as the pinnacle of the Eucharist. God gives us
many “obvious things” that are not so obvious. And you do that often
we will only realize when we lose them. Every sunrise is, for me, proof that God loves me. Every Holy Mass signifies that God is staying with us for all days, until the end of the world (cf. Mt 28:20).
The Flemish writer Zimmerman described the old mentality in one of his short stories a virgin waiting to be asked for her hand, but not to get married, but she could refuse with great dignity. At that moment, she felt like a great lady. 

Sometimes we are not also tempters of God, who are not concerned with his glory, but by cultivating your own prestige, your ego, which can boast of everything has seen and tried, and who is not interested in improving his life at all? It is possible to ask for a miracle, but on the condition that it is God’s will and will serve, it is for my salvation or someone else’s. But let’s not wait for weird signs. They always remain special. We’d better open our eyes and praise God for the little things he gives us. And let’s ask: What about me? Do you mean lord What sign are you giving me? And not for a moment let us not doubt that God desires to answer these questions. He wants this mutual silent dialogue further developed and led us into a more profound truth about ourselves and our place in the world.
Franz Werfel, the author of the famous book Singing about Bernadette, wrote: “Who wants it to believe, does not need any signs or evidence. He who does not want to think will not even a thousand pieces of evidence. “

The Fathers liken the human heart to the “promised land” in which the Philistines, Babylonians, and other nations cast spears and arrows, namely bad exhortations. These “devilish”, “carnal”, “impure” thoughts cannot come from our hearts because it was created by God.
So, they come “from the outside”. They don’t belong to our natural way of thinking. And as long as they stay “outside” us, they are not sinning. They become evil only when we consciously and voluntarily accept them when we identify with them. But the Gospel says that evil comes from the heart, not things (Mt 15:19)
Sure, but we have to be careful how we explain the text. Sin comes from the heart of a man because consent to evil is given within man, his free will. Bad thoughts and passionate desires almost always revolve around us. It often fills our imagination and our minds. It constitutes a human weakness after the sin of our ancestors. But they are not a real evil in themselves. The Church claims that lust comes from sin and lures to sin, but it is not a sin in itself. And so, we live in a dangerous state, still exposed to temptation. ..
How to purify your heart?
Man’s life on earth is a struggle, says Job (7: 1). One proverb adds: Whoever does not want to fight, should not even live. But we must not exaggerate the difficulties of this struggle. The ancient mystical author, Pseudo—Marius, likens our souls to a big city. It is beautiful in the middle of a castle, next to it is a marketplace and then there is a periphery. The enemy, the inherited sin, occupied the periphery, namely our senses. And that’s why we are often worried there. But these riots often permeate the marketplace, that is, where the debate begins, whether we should accept the idea as our own or rather reject it. But into the castle of the interior, where our freedom is the master, sin cannot penetrate unless we open the gate to it with his free consent.
St. Theresa of Avila also speaks of the “castle of the interior” of our
souls where we can talk to our Lord, the divine Guest, without any interference from the outside. Despite this, we are internally divided. It’s not pleasant at all, it’s downright tiring … Spiritual people do not just try to avoid sin, but also to purify the heart because that is the only way the soul can return to the inner room. Monk authors call austerities by the Greek term praxis and thus denote spiritual application (practice). However, they distinguish between “external
practice “- which focuses on avoiding sinful deeds – and” inner practice “aimed at purifying the heart. Usually presented moral lessons, unfortunately, they remain limited to external practice: “This must not be done, this can be done.” And perhaps this can explain why some people are so often upset and don’t know what to do when they apply known external laws do not help, and in search, other solutions resort to various methods, which offers false mysticism, doctors, and drugs. It is often forgotten that Christian spirituality offers very effective instructions on how to get a room.
Where can I find these instructions?
Monks who chose to live in solitude, in particular well versed in how to acquire an inner room. They sought peace by escaping from the world. But very soon they experienced that mere solitude alone does not bring peace. Holy, For example, the abbot Antonio took refuge in the desert, but he was attacked by “demons”, many thoughts and ideas that worried him. So he had to teach these “demons” to overcome. Only after a long inner struggle did he learn how to overcome ideas.
Only then did his loneliness become a place of peace. This experience was so general, so well known, that the state law of the Byzantine Empire forbade monks.
How to purify your heart?
To take refuge in the desert without first living ten years of ascetic life in a monastery. Monks, so they first had to learn to control their thoughts and their ideas before they could indulge in hermit life. These experiences of ancient monks are still for the present human accessible and useful? It is interesting that they are being translated at the moment and publish texts of ancient spirituality on the internal struggle, Just because they feel they are needed and growing up demand them. To give a well-known example, it is enough to recall how translations have multiplied recently Philokalia by Nicodemus Hagiority. The text is a collection of numerous patristic passages in which they learn how to achieve purity of heart, which is a condition of good prayer. And the living room. It has been said that sin will only occur if one gives free consent, which is combined with a bad idea. But how can we know for sure whether we freely agreed or not? During confession, some scrupulous people that they “had bad thoughts,” but they can’t answer whether they agreed with them or not the monks knew that such uncertainty greatly harmed peace of mind. Therefore, they proposed a thorough analysis of the thought process that occurs in the internal temptations. There are usually five periods of penetration of evil into the heart: 1. guidance, 2. conversation, 3rd fight, 4th consent, 5th passion. That certainly requires your ventilation.

Be attentive and merciful to one’s neighbor.
The miners took the tenth to their colleague. They wanted to know how it would behave. They wanted to test his Christian faith. Their intention failed. They did not witness an unexpected outburst of anger. A startled colleague said, “Someone took my tenth, but my appetite remained. ” So someone helps me.
When St. Filip Néri, like Don Bosco, went to find food for abandoned children, which he found on the street, a high-ranking gentleman on horseback was walking opposite him. St. Filip ho he asked if he would give him money, as he saw that he had no bread with him. That ho he insulted, spat on him, kicked him out, and laughed. The saint accepted it and said to him, “That it was for me, and now give me something for the boys. ” He was so surprised by his humility and the simplicity that he took the money and gave it to him.
In the Gospels, we heard about the multiplication of the bread. Jesus said, “I am sorry to the crowd, for they have been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. When I let them go home to the hungry, they are fainting on the way, for some of them have come from afar ”(Mk8: 2-3). Jesus’ mercy was so generous that not only did they all eat, but seven full baskets of shreds also increased. Let’s try to transfer to today’s modern times. How many people are dying from hunger, especially in developing countries? We can see malnourished children who die on the streets. There is a great contrast: on the one hand, they give enormous spending on armaments and, on the other hand, people are dying of hunger. Let’s think about ourselves as well, or sometimes we don’t waste bread. How many times the whole tenth is in the waste bins. We value bread, of which we have enough? Do we thank God for having enough food?
The bread is intended to be saturated. However, if someone breaks it into pieces and throws it away, the country will starve further. Bread is useful when eaten as a meal. There is another bread, the living one, which is Jesus Christ. Let’s often eat this bread with a pure and sincere heart. Regularly eating at my table means that too you shall eat at the Lord’s table continually, at the Lord’s Supper – the Eucharist. God, you, it calls for healthy and lame friends and enemies, those who have forgotten for father’s bread. But also those who have forgotten Heavenly Father. The Lord’s table is a table of lasting grace and love of God. If we accept it like this, we will weigh the bread every day. 

Where does evil come from?
People have always asked themselves this question, even though they were convinced that the problem of evil poses a secret to us. Before the advent of Christianity, we can schematically distinguish three different basic answers to this question:
1. Cosmic dualism states: there are two in the world the kinds of forces that fight each other: the details of the good deities and the powers of evil gods, light, and darkness. In Good, he seems more robust, but his struggle with evil is eternal.
2. Anthropological dualism states: good and evil are n handle themselves. Their struggle manifests itself as the opposite of body and spirit. The desires of the body lead us to sin; the heart lifts us. But through austerities, he can man weaken the influence of the body and thus strengthen the spirit.
3. Moral dualism states: the body itself does not lead to evil but to “passions.” Thus, virtue consists of overcoming passions and living according to reason. Can an explanation of cosmic dualism be accepted? This concept, typical of ancient Eastern religions, is reflected in fairy tales, which are the most ancient human literature documents. They are in the good fairies, and evil witches and princes go to wrestle with dragons. Children like to listen to these stories because they clearly distinguish what is right and what is wrong, and eventually, the belief in the victory of goodwill manifests. And yet, after all, this conception contradicts the Christian one revelation. God created everything that exists, and everything that God has created is good. Therefore, it is unacceptable for the existence of any evil force independent of God that would it was as eternal as he was, nor can the presence of any evil being been accepted from the beginning. However, in our body, as testified by St. Paul (cf. Rome 7), sin is hidden; the body opposes the spirit. How do we have this opposition to understand? Indeed, in the Bible and ascetic literature, the “body” is referred to as the source of evil. But this term must not mislead us. “Body” (literally “flesh”) does not mean the human body but is a term used in the moral sense, which denotes the sum of temptation caused by a sin that has already taken root in us. It is also called “lust,” which is said to “come from sin, lures to sin, but it does not sin in itself. “Therefore, it would be a mistake to believe that evil is ours: body, the material part of man. The body of Christ is holy, and we are called to sanctify our bodies in connection with it.

Like ancient philosophers – Stoics – Christian morality teaches taming passions; So should they be considered evil? How to purify your heart? The term “passion” can be understood in two ways. As a good emotional desire when denoting natural inclination: for example, the desire to eat when someone is hungry, the joy of movement, the desire to get married or to marry in a suitable time, etc. Negatively when our passions exceed peace and are difficult to control, they lead to evil.
However, even passions do not sin in themselves. By God’s grace, man has the freedom and power to overcome the penchant for evil. And if desire were exceptional so strong that one would lose freedom or knowledge of good and evil, he would commit, as moralists say, sin “materially.” Still, there is such a sin before God justified by the extreme fragility of man. And so, according to Christian teaching, what must be considered evil, and who is responsible for coming into the world? The only sin is the real evil; it is the fruit of the free consent to the evil that man himself has given. And so, the only man is responsible for the evil that seizes his heart and enters the world through him.

Church Fathers wrote a homily on the theme “God is not the cause of different evil “(St. Basil). He addresses man in these words: “Do not blame God or the devil or the world or the flesh with his passions, but blame yourself and only to himself! “St. John Chrysostom wrote a treatise entitled: No one can suffer harm on his own. That is a sad finding. And is? In a sense, yes, but there is also the other side of the coin: if we are the cause of evil, on the other hand, we can try to correct them. But in the world, we encounter so many misfortunes over which we feel no guilt! Fathers distinguish between so-called “physical” evils and “moral” evils. Moral evil is sin. They are physical evil diseases, death, natural disasters, persecution, etc. Even their distant cause is a sin that reaches the first of Adam’s disobedience. They have physical evils criminal nature. And that is why they serve the good if they are received in a repentant spirit. Suffering is they exhort us not to seek our final in the world happiness and turned their minds to God.

Accept God’s will
Dear believers, the first dimension of healing is physical, physical,
Healing of non-functioning body organs. I think, and I’m sure you’ll give it to me, the truth is that we all have experience with physical illness. We are all sick, and nobody doesn’t have to hide it. From the twenty-fifth year of life, many will die in our cells that will never recover. It’s a reality; we have to deal with it, whether we want it or don’t want it. We can say that we are slowly dying. If we accept this fact, we are healed. We need physical healing not to we did not pass, but to die with dignity. We heard them bring the deaf to Jesus and ask him to come to him he put his hand. He touched those parts of the affected body that were sick, and after, in the words of “Effeta,” which means “Open” (Mark 7:34), his ears were opened, and he untied his tongue. It seems simple. What do you say to that, dear believers, dear children, dear youth? But we do not know how many years this patient has suffered. How much money maybe he missed the doctors to be healthy and find meaning in life. And here someone comes who has power over all the sick and disabled. He didn’t want to talk about it. Surely we all know that bad things spread fast but good even faster. Those who witnessed this miracle admired and praised it. In the Gospels, we find the message of 35 precisely defined ones the miracles that Jesus performed during his work on earth. Of the 35, 26 cases described, in which he healed the sick or resurrected dead. Understandably, there is a record of a small part of Christ in Scripture action.
St. John Vianney says: “The fish is made for swimming – it swims, the bird is made for flying – flying, the nightingale is created for singing – singing, man is created for love – and yet he does not love. And it is love that dispels fear, which is also the cause of disease, whether mental or physical. Throughout our lives, we spread an atmosphere of peace, tranquility, and love. Let’s take our hearts the seeds of right and good words to come out of the generous to humanity’s richness spikelet. The True love of a neighbor is one that feels his needs and carries his burdens. Therefore, please at this St. Mass for more sincere love in our hearts, for God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Thoughts of will.
I know that a firm will is the first secret of success and the basis of great courageous deeds. I know that a firm will makes a man the master of his happiness. I know that I have to overcome unwanted stimuli spiritually, such as fear, sadness, anxiety, anger, jealousy, envy, irritability, regret. I know that I have to endure evil and discomfort to strengthen my will. I know a man who thinks I want and can achieve what he wants. A man who thinks, I am not afraid, will not be afraid. A man who thinks I am healthy will not be sick. A man with a strong will not be a weakling. Remember that to gain a strong will; you must have a strong interest. Remember that every work started and unfinished undermines your choice. Don’t save what you can’t do. Be consistent. Try to achieve the goal you set. Don’t be soft and delicate to yourself. Strict self-discipline is needed to strengthen and strengthen the will. A strong will and perseverance are a sign of important people; their qualities are peace, courtesy, security. You have to realize that you are directly given creative power in a firm to create what you want from yourself. You know that gaining a strong will pays off in many ways. You apply it in various areas of life. Strong will overcome obstacles, prolongs life. Weak will and unsettled reasons cause a crisis of humanity. The main signs of the problem are indifference, moral carelessness, numbness, cowardice. A big obstacle to achieving a strong will and success in life is the inner rift to want and not to enjoy at the same time. Weak will believe in destiny. It’s as if a man is a ball that someone throws where he wants. No, man’s life is not governed by fate but by himself. An individual saying says that man is a blacksmith of his happiness. Of course, perseverance is associated with a firm will. Intense will, enthusiasm without diligence is not enough. And the industry is not possible without overcoming, removing obstacles of various kinds. Where is will, there is the way. St. Paul writes. I can do everything that strengthens me.