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Saturday April 26 2025, 00H01
Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel
Titulus Própriĉ Ecclésiĉ Sollemnitas.
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A brother asked an old man, saying, 'Father, what answer will I return to those who abuse us and say that we do not return to the world because of our laziness, and that by the work of our hands and the labour of our souls we do not relieve strangers?' The old man said to him, ' Although we have from the Law and from the commandments of our Lord many things wherewith we could make answer concerning the crown of perfection, yet we must make answer, with humility, in this wise: Beloved, when the Ninevites were in need of repentance, which of them did these things for the necessity of the world and the rights thereof? Did not even the king himself refrain from this thing and take the same course as the men of olden time, and those of the later time, and those who were before them? And he kept silence and was quiet, even according to all the characteristics of the world, and up to the present no [men] have described the punishment which befitted them. Thus also it is with us, and because we have sinned against and transgressed the natural and written law we bring to naught all [the characteristics] of the world until we will perceive that reconciliation has come, and the penalty of the rights of olden time and of the commandments has been dissolved. And did not Paul also teach us this, [when he said], ( He who wages a strife keeps his mind [free] from everything else?' (Compare 1 Corinthians ix, 24, 25.) And a man must not rest until the Lord blot out seed from Babel.'
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