Sunday, February 1 : Saint Jerome

“I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living” (Ps 26:13), David said. What other goods could this king seek; what could this man lack, whose power was such that the wealth he amassed satisfied his son Solomon, whose opulence no one has surpassed in the entire universe? In the land of the living, he sought those goods “which eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has the idea entered into the heart of man, but which God has prepared for those who love him” (1Co 2:9). “Blessed are the meek: they will obtain the earth!” (Mt 5:5) says the Gospel. (…) David, too, said in another psalm: “Remember, Lord, David, and all his meekness” (Ps 131,1), and elsewhere: “The Lord welcomes the meek” (Ps 146,6). And we read in the Gospel: “Learn from me that I am meek and humble in heart” (Mt 11:29). And Moses was also a figure of Christ, he whom Scripture presents to us as the meekest among men (cf. Num 12:3). Yes, the land of the living is where the goods of the Lord are prepared for the saints and for the meek. Before the coming of our Lord and Savior in the flesh, these goods were inaccessible even to Abraham (…) The land of the living, the land of the riches and goods of God, the first Adam had lost and the second found it or rather the first had lost it and the second gave it back.

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