And then, after the prayer, do the hard part: look at the person in the mirror. Look at the person you’ve been avoiding. Look at the quiet, ordinary evil of your own small cruelties.
This is the evil we love to hate: violence, corruption, abuse, injustice. It’s the news cycle that leaves us exhausted. It’s the tyrant, the trafficker, the liar. We want deliverance from them . And rightly so. This evil is real, and it breaks the world. Libranos del Mal
Deliver us from evil.
We want to be protected from liars, but not from our own self-deception. And then, after the prayer, do the hard
And ask for deliverance from that .
Li-bra-nos del mal.