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Does anyone want to behave well? Stand then at a distance from pride and cover yourself with an obedience without reservation, the very highest humility; Happiness and joy will be on your head (cf. is 35,10). Indeed, what will not come from this good root? All joy, peace, kindness and piety, all docility and moderation, all sweetness and leniency (cf. Ga 5,22), all that is beautiful, pleasant and desirable, in short, everything that characterizes he who is truly man of God. (…) Lift your eyes to Christ our Lord and God, master of all things, He who is the truly rich, the only Son of the Father, be attracted by what is humble (cf. RM 12,6) and imitate what he did. He was simple in appearance; He was submitted to his parents until the appropriat time; He often traveled on the roads and sat down when he was tired (cf. Jn 4,6); Insulted, he did not insult; mistreated, he did not threaten (cf. 1 p 2,22); He turned His cheek to the one who struck him; He did not have many clothes and was content with a small tunic and a coat; He did not take soft blankets with him; He was not going on horseback or mounted on mules; He only fed on bread and drank water from the stream . And if we who have much more, we still think we are in discomfort and torment, how will we establish ourselves in the imitation of the Lord? This is why we must support everything with patience and shape our life on the divine model!

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The prophet Isaiah says: “Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar” (Is 30,27)… Who can doubt that there was some cause great enough to move so sovereign a Majesty to come “from afar,” and condescend to enter a place so unworthy of him as this world of ours? The cause was great indeed. It was his immense mercy, his manifold compassion, his abundant charity. Indeed, for what end must we believe Christ came? The search demands little labor, for the end and purpose of his coming is proclaimed by his words and works. To seek after the one sheep that had strayed out of the hundred he hastened from the mountains. He came for our sake, that his mercies and his wondrous deeds might be openly proclaimed to humankind (Ps 107[106],8). O wonderful condescension of God in his searching for us! o wonderful dignity of man who is thus sought! If one should wish to glory in this dignity, it would not be imputed to us as folly. Not that we need think anything of ourselves, but let us rejoice that he who made us should set so high a value on us. For all the riches and glory of the world, all that could be desired, all this is of little worth and even nothing at all by comparison with that glory. “What is man, O Lord, that you make much of him, or pay him any heed?” (Jb 7,17).
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