St. Michael the Archangel may help us not only when we're tempted. Apart from being the greatest defender of God and His Laws he is - and I'm sure that it is so - a great teacher for all Christians. But what exactly can be learned from him, especially for now, as we're on the threshold of Lent? I think that his example can bring a faithful and his whole family to the deepest understanding of just-mentioned period. In fact we shall celebrate each and every Ash Wednesday with Michael's battle cry -- ''who is like God'' -- on our lips.
Michael knew that God can't be just important for both angels and men... He can't even be the most important for above-mentioned creatures: instead he shall mean -- without any restriction -- EVERYTHING for them.
All the acts of charity, penance and alms-giving combined will be useless without man's prior readiness to listen to the most famous, rhetoric question of the loyal Archangel.
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Tomasz, Racibórz
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