THE DAILY GOSPEL

   There are two ways of teaching and of power, the one of light and the other of darkness; and there is a great difference between the two ways (…). But the way of the Black One is crooked and full of a curse. For it is a way of eternal death with punishment wherein are the things that destroy men’s souls–idolatry, boldness, exhalation of power, hypocrisy, doubleness of heart, adultery, murder, plundering, pride, transgression, treachery, malice(…), covetousness, absence of the fear of God; persecutors of good men, hating the truth (…), paying no heed to the widow and the orphan (…), not pitying the poor man (…), oppressing him that is afflicted (…). It is good therefore to learn the ordinances of the Lord, as many as have been written above, and to walk in them. For he that does these things shall be glorified in the kingdom of God; whereas he that chooses their opposites shall perish together with his works. For this cause is the resurrection, for this the recompense. I entreat you: keep amongst you those to whom you may do good. Fail not.

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Jesus renewed the call made to Abraham to the holy apostles. And their faith was like Abraham’s in that, just as Abraham obeyed as soon as he was called (Gen 12), so the apostles set out after Jesus as soon as he called them and they heard his voice (…). It was not a long process of instruction that made disciples of them but the simple fact of their having heard the word of faith. Because their faith was alive, no sooner had they heard his living voice than they obeyed that life. Immediately, they ran after him without delay, and from this we see that they were disciples in heart even before being called. This is how a faith acts that has kept its simplicity. It is not by force of argument that it accepts instruction but, just as an eye that is sound receives the rays of the sun transmitted to it and views the light as soon as it opens, without either reasoning it out or working at it, (…) so those with a natural faith recognize God’s voice as soon as they hear it. The light of his word arises in them; they throw themselves joyfully before it and take it to themselves, as our Lord said in the Gospel: “My sheep hear my voice and they follow me” (Jn 10:27).

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