This excerpt from the Evening Prayer for the Monday of the Second Week of Lent is from Romans 12:2.
Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may judge what is God’s will, what is good, pleasing and perfect.
Courtesy: DivineOffice.org
This was the very first Scripture verse I even memorized because I found in it the central theme of addiction recovery by the graces of the Catholic Church.
“Do not conforme yourselves to this age:” We are Catholic. We reject the false morality of the secular world which would have us murder unborn babies; treat with grave inhumanity undocumented immigrants fleeing poverty, violence and corruption; accept sexual deviancy as normal; and acept the general dehumanization of everyone through economic exploitation.
“But be transformed by the renewal of your mind:” Through prayer and the reading od Sacred Scripture and good spiritual reading, we can help our mind become renewed in Jesus.
“So that you may judge what is God’s will, what is good, pleasing and perfect:” And once that renewal has begun, we are better able to see God’s will in our lives and in the society around us.
I have written about this passage numerous times before:
Be Transformed by the Renewal of Your Mind
What is Good and Pleasing and Perfect
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