Sunday, October 10 : Saint Columbanus

How blessed, how happy are those servants, “whom the lord when he comes shall find watching!” (Lk 12,37) Blessed watch, in which they watch for God the Creator of the universe, who fills all things and surpasses all! Would that me also, wretched though I be, yet his poor servant, he might deign so to arouse from the sleep of idleness, so to kindle with that fire of divine love, that the flame of his love, the longing of his so great charity, would mount above the stars, and the divine fire would ever burn within me! Would that I were of such deserving, that my lamp might ever burn by night in the temple of my Lord, that to all entering the house of my God it might give light (cf. Mt 5,15). Lord, grant me, I pray you in the name of Jesus Christ your Son, my God, that love which knows no fall, so that my lamp may feel the kindling touch and know no quenching, may burn for me and for others may give light.

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