Monday, March 3 : Book of Sirach 17,20-24.
To the penitent God provides a way back, he encourages those who are losing hope and has chosen for them the lot of truth. Return to the LORD and give up sin, pray to him and make your offenses few.
Turn again to the Most High and away from sin, hate intensely what he loathes; and know the justice and judgments of God, stand firm in the way set before you, in prayer to the Most High God.
Who in the nether world can glorify the Most High in place of the living who offer their praise? Dwell no longer in the error of the ungodly, but offer your praise before death.
No more can the dead give praise than those who have never lived; they glorify the LORD who are alive and well.
How great the mercy of the LORD, his forgiveness of those who return to him!
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