February 27
Virtues are like someone who has a treasure that, if it is not hidden from the eyes of the envious, being stolen. The devil is always watching, and he, the worst of all envious, looking snatch this treasure, which are the virtues, as soon as you discover, and does assaulting us with that enemy is so powerful that vainglory.
Our Lord, always attentive to our good, to preserve this great enemy, warns us in several places of the gospel. Do not tell us that if we want to pray, we retire to our room, close the door and pray one on one with God, that our prayer is heard by others?, What, when fasting, we wash face so that we discover our fasting to others in the dirt and the pale face?, what, to give alms, let not your right hand what the left?
(August 2, 1913, Father Agustin de San Marcos in Lamis - Letters. I, p. 396
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