It's not easy to resist evil, as St. Faustina lamented, but she also knew the key to carrying on.

The readings for this homily: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/122325.cfm Christmas does not begin when the stores say it does. It begins with prayer. As Fr. Chris Alar, MIC explains, the Church enters Christmas at Vespers on Christmas Eve, because the mystery we celebrate is not sentimentality but the Incarnation itself — God entering history to heal what humanity could never repair on its own.

Today's meditation recalls a short prayer given to St. Faustina particularly for the grace of conversion of hearts.