Monday, June 10 : Saint John Cassian

The beatitude commended by the mouth of our Savior, declares this very plainly: “Blessed are the meek, because they shall possess the earth. (Mt 5,4) We shall not possess our own earth, that is the earth of this rebellious body will not be placed under our sway – unless our mind first has become fixed in patient mildness ; likewise a person will be unable to will be unable to restrain the revolts of wantonness against his own flesh, unless he has first been supplied with the weapons of gentleness: “The gentle,” said the Prophet, “shall possess the earth,” and “they shall dwell opun it forever. (Ps 36, 11.29) Later, in that same psalm the prophet teaches us how to acquire this earth: “Wait for the Lord and keeps his way; He will exaly you, so that you may have the earth for your inheritance. “(PS 36, 34) It is obvious then that no onecan arise to acquiring firm possession of the earth, except those who by an unalterable patient mildness, have keptto the hard ways of the Lord and His commandments . They have been raised up from the filth of the carnal passions out of which He Himself has drawn them. “The gentle shall possess the earth” and not only shall they possess it, but “they will delight in an abundance of peace. »(PS 36.11) No one will enjoy this enduringly in whose flesh there still wage the battles of concupiscence. (…) Thus, when the Lord has destroyed wars, and freed him from every seething emotion and impulse, he will attain such a state of purity, then no longer distressed for the horror he felt for himself- that is- for his flesh, when he was being assailed, and that he will begin to be delighted by it, as in a very pure tabernacle.
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