Father Dan Reehil

But he makes a point.

If evil's having its day, we need to be more offensive in fighting it

Because when God set up the world and creation in the universe, including the spiritual aspects, there's a divine providence that governs everything.

and in as much as we can understand it, and they understand it more because they're smarter than we are.

Basically, when we live our lives loving and obeying God and his laws, basically we're protected from the supernatural power of the enemy.

The natural power is temptation.

We're all subject to that through the original sin and through concupiscence that we're all saddled with.

But from the supernatural works of the enemy, usually we're protected.

Now, in very rare cases, like Padre Pio and Saint John Vianney and Saint Anthony in the Desert,

When they can't get their soul, they can just physically attack them.

And so many of these saints were beaten during the night.

And you would say, well, why does God allow that?

Well, he allows it to bring forth a greater good.

What would the greater good be?

That those saints knew that what was happening and they would be offering that to Jesus and uniting to his cross to convert their sufferings into grace to save more souls.

And so in every attack the enemy throws at us, we have the power to overcome him by uniting to Jesus' cross and converting our trials into grace to rescue more souls back from the enemy.

The problem is most people don't do this.

And the enemy winds up winning that battle because they don't fight back.

In some cases, they use the enemy's tactics to get revenge.

But that's a side story.