tepidity

How can you explain the tepidity of the movements in the West and our indifference in the face of injustice elsewhere?
Comment expliquer la tiédeur de nos mouvements en Occident et leur indifférence face à l’injustice ailleurs ?
He reports, for example, the contradiction between the splendid external appearance of monasteries and the tepidity of the monks: this criticism was also certainly directed at his own abbey.
Il dénonce, par exemple, la contradiction entre la splendide apparence extérieure des monastères et la tiédeur des moines : cette critique visait aussi certainement sa propre abbaye.
Saint John of the Cross helps us to see the way to go and urges us to go back to the Master, even though we might find ourselves in a night of sin and tepidity.
Saint Jean de la Croix nous aide à voir le chemin à suivre et nous encourage à revenir au Maître, bien que nous soyons dans la nuit du péché et du compromis.
He is well aware of our tepidity, and He knows that we will not probably immediately follow his will for us to choose the Gospel, but we will rather temporise, struggle along, and just keep on living, without stridencies and without hurry.
Il connaît notre tiédeur, il sait que nous ne nous efforçons pas suffisamment pour suivre l'Evangile mais que nous voulons temporiser, aller comme ci comme ça, vivre sans rechigner et sans se presser.
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