Sunday, November 24 : Blessed Guerric of Igny

Grateful thanks to you, Lord Jesus! We stand before you, we wait for you… “Yet a little while, and again a little while”: I for one have made a single act of belief in all your rulings. But do you “help my lack of belief” so that I may wait for you, ever wait there for you unmoved, until I see what I believe. For I believe that “I shall see the Lord’s bounty in the land of the living.” Do you believe this too, my brother? Then “wait for the Lord, behave courageously, strengthen your heart and wait in patience for the Lord”… For although he does command that he should be awaited with patience in another place he promises that he will be coming quickly. On the one hand he is giving some idea of the great persistence needed, on the other he is strengthening the faint-hearted, terrifying the improvident, and rousing up the lazy. “Look,” he says, “I am coming quickly and bringing with me rewards to bestow on everyone in proportion to his labors.” Further, to Jerusalem he says: “Your salvation shall soon come; why should you be consumed with grief?” The time truly is short, though it may seem very long to any of us who are in turmoil, whether from labor or from love… But certainly he shall come, that Lord of ours, our dread and our desire, the rest and the reward of his laborers, the sweetness and embrace of his lovers, the blessedness of all, our Savior Jesus Christ. (Biblical references: Jn 16:16; Mk 9:24; Ps 26[27]:13-14; Rv 22:12; 1Co 7:29)

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