Saint Clement I, Pope - How grand and marvelous are the gifts of God
How grand and marvelous are the gifts of God
From the letter to the Corinthians by Saint Clement I, Pope
(Chapters 35, 1-5; 36, 1-2; 37, 1, 4-5; 38, 1-2, 4)
(Chapters 35, 1-5; 36, 1-2; 37, 1, 4-5; 38, 1-2, 4)
Beloved brethen, how grand and marvelous are the gifts of God!
Life in immortality, the splendor of justice, the truth in liberty, faith in confidence, temperance in holiness!
And all these are the gifts that from this moment on are within reach of our knowledge. What then are the goods that are prepared for those who love Him?
They are known only to the Supreme Author, the Father of all ages; only He knows their number and their beauty.
We should then, if we desire to attain these gifts, strive with all our heart and soul to be counted among those who wait for their arrival.
And how will we be able to achieve this, beloved brothers?
By uniting our souls to God with all our faith, searching always, with diligence, what is pleasing and acceptable to His eyes, accomplishing what is in accord with his Holy Will, following the path of truth and rejecting from our lives all injustice, evil, avarice, rivalry, malice and deceit.
This, beloved brethen, is the path by which we reach our salvation, Jesus Christ, the supreme High Priest of our oblations, the sustain and the help for our weakness.
Through Him we can fix our sight on the heights of Heaven; by Him, we can see like in a mirror the immaculate and sublime rostrum of God; by Him, the eyes of our heart are opened; by Him, our mind, insensible and clouded, opens to the splendor of the Light; by Him, the Lord wants us to taste the knowledge of the immortal, since He is the reflection of the Glory of God, praised and exalted above the angels; how more sublime is the Name He has inherited.
Let us then serve Him, brothers, with all our strengths, under His irreproachable commands.
The great cannot do anything without the small; nor can the small do anything without the great; effectiveness depends precisely on the conjunction of all.
Take for example our body. The head is nothing without the feet, just as the feet are nothing without the head.
The smallest members of our body are necessary and useful to the whole.
Moreover, all coordinate between each other for the good of the entire body.
Let us procure then to conserve the integrity of this body that we form in Christ Jesus, and that each one of us place himself or herself at the service of their neighbor in accordance with the grace assigned to them by the gift of God.
May the strong protect the weak; the weak respect the strong.
May the wealthy give to the poor, and the poor thank God for providing the one that will remedy his or her need.
May the wise manifest their wisdom not with words but with good deeds; may the humble not give testimony of himself, but instead allow others to give such testimony.
For all this, we must give thanks to the One from Whom all these gifts and goods derive, to Whom belongs the Glory for ever. Amen.
PRAYER
Omnipotent and eternal God, Who shows Yourself admirable in the glory of Your saints, grant that we celebrate with joy the feast of Saint Clement, priest and martyr of Your Son, who gave testimony with his death of the mysteries that he celebrated, confirming thereby with his own example what he predicated with his word. Through Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You in the Unity of the Holy Spirit and is God, for ever and ever. Amen
Translated from the Spanish Liturgies of the Hours by Jan Paul von Wendt - from
corazones.org
How grand and marvelous are the gifts of God
From the letter to the Corinthians by Saint Clement I, Pope
(Chapters 35, 1-5; 36, 1-2; 37, 1, 4-5; 38, 1-2, 4)
(Chapters 35, 1-5; 36, 1-2; 37, 1, 4-5; 38, 1-2, 4)
Beloved brethen, how grand and marvelous are the gifts of God!
Life in immortality, the splendor of justice, the truth in liberty, faith in confidence, temperance in holiness!
And all these are the gifts that from this moment on are within reach of our knowledge. What then are the goods that are prepared for those who love Him?
They are known only to the Supreme Author, the Father of all ages; only He knows their number and their beauty.
We should then, if we desire to attain these gifts, strive with all our heart and soul to be counted among those who wait for their arrival.
And how will we be able to achieve this, beloved brothers?
By uniting our souls to God with all our faith, searching always, with diligence, what is pleasing and acceptable to His eyes, accomplishing what is in accord with his Holy Will, following the path of truth and rejecting from our lives all injustice, evil, avarice, rivalry, malice and deceit.
This, beloved brethen, is the path by which we reach our salvation, Jesus Christ, the supreme High Priest of our oblations, the sustain and the help for our weakness.
Through Him we can fix our sight on the heights of Heaven; by Him, we can see like in a mirror the immaculate and sublime rostrum of God; by Him, the eyes of our heart are opened; by Him, our mind, insensible and clouded, opens to the splendor of the Light; by Him, the Lord wants us to taste the knowledge of the immortal, since He is the reflection of the Glory of God, praised and exalted above the angels; how more sublime is the Name He has inherited.
Let us then serve Him, brothers, with all our strengths, under His irreproachable commands.
The great cannot do anything without the small; nor can the small do anything without the great; effectiveness depends precisely on the conjunction of all.
Take for example our body. The head is nothing without the feet, just as the feet are nothing without the head.
The smallest members of our body are necessary and useful to the whole.
Moreover, all coordinate between each other for the good of the entire body.
Let us procure then to conserve the integrity of this body that we form in Christ Jesus, and that each one of us place himself or herself at the service of their neighbor in accordance with the grace assigned to them by the gift of God.
May the strong protect the weak; the weak respect the strong.
May the wealthy give to the poor, and the poor thank God for providing the one that will remedy his or her need.
May the wise manifest their wisdom not with words but with good deeds; may the humble not give testimony of himself, but instead allow others to give such testimony.
For all this, we must give thanks to the One from Whom all these gifts and goods derive, to Whom belongs the Glory for ever. Amen.
PRAYER
Omnipotent and eternal God, Who shows Yourself admirable in the glory of Your saints, grant that we celebrate with joy the feast of Saint Clement, priest and martyr of Your Son, who gave testimony with his death of the mysteries that he celebrated, confirming thereby with his own example what he predicated with his word. Through Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You in the Unity of the Holy Spirit and is God, for ever and ever. Amen
Translated from the Spanish Liturgies of the Hours by Jan Paul von Wendt - from
corazones.org
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