Spiritual Paralysis
“Ask anyone who has spent years struggling with anger, envy, or destructive addictions. He will tell you: “I did not want to do it, yet I did.” Sin never asks permission. It enters the house of the soul silently, through small compromises, and then bolts the door from the inside. A man imagines that he is merely flirting with the world, while in reality he is constructing an invisible prison around himself. The ancient teachers of the Church rightly compared this condition to