Aviva in you the gift of faith

 
Nov. 29

Avivemos above all our faith and we present the resounding victory that speak the sacred letters, which got the people of Israel on the Midianites. At the heart of the night, it reads, while the immense throng enemy, leaving the trenches, and encamped in the plain, without suspecting it, was quietly surrounded by only three hundred warriors of Gideon, all with the trumpet in one hand and in the other a pitcher containing inside a burning torch. The signal from the captain, loudly break the pitchers, is sounded the trumpets and, after each touch, hear the battle cry: "The Lord and Gideon."Given the tremendous shouts, the sound of trumpets, the immense glare of torches, a huge horror invaded the enemy camp, and everyone began to run rashly, still half asleep, while the trumpets kept its mournful sound, and enemies, in the indescribable confusion of the hurried flight, many killed each other, leaving corpses in the field in droves.This victory secured the Israelite people, as we have seen, not with arms, but with a particular war strategy.Well, we too, while we live, we must sustain a pretty tough fight. Overpowering this war with that singular strategy used by Gideon. Let's make this fight go ahead in light of good works, the virtue of the knowledge of God, the burning desire of the word of God. Then we also fight them to the sound of hymns, psalms and spiritual songs, singing and raising strong voice to the Lord, and so we will achieve victory worthy of our Lord Jesus, to whom is the glory and the power for ever.
(October 14, 1915, to Raffaelina Cerase - Letters. II, p. 514)