The LORD addressed Job out of the storm and said :
And who shut within doors the sea, when it burst forth from the womb;
When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands?
When I set limits for it and fastened the bar of its door,
And said: Thus far shall you come but no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stilled!
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Weigh this: Your God loves you more than you can love yourself; So what do you have to fear? “The Lord worried about me” (Cf. Ps 39,18), repeated David, and this thought comforted him. Say in your turn: “In your arms, Lord, I abandon myself; I admit no other concern than to love and please you: I am ready to do whatever you want. You have more than the desire to do me good, you will worry about it: it is therefore to you that I leave my salvation, since you are going to place all my hopes in you. “I will fall asleep and rest in peace, because you yourself, Lord, strengthened me in hope of your protection” (PS 4,9 VG) “. “Have for the Lord feelings worthy of his goodness” (SG 1,1 VG). By these words, the sage urges us to entrust ourselves to the mercy of God more than fear his justice. God, in fact, is immensely more inclined to bless than to punish, according to the word of Saint James: “Mercy rises above justice” (cf. James 2,13). Hence this recommendation of the apostle Saint Peter: “Unload on God of all your worries, because he himself takes care of you” (cf. 1 p 5,7). These are our anxieties about our interests, both temporal and eternal: we must give them up without reservation to the goodness of God, above all we must entrust ourselves to the extreme care he takes for our salvation.
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Jesus said to his disciples: “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat (or drink), or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they?
Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?
Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin.
But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them.
If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?
So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’
All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides.
Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”
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“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant:
Forever will I confirm your posterity and establish your throne for all generations.” Forever I will maintain my kindness toward him, and my covenant with him stands firm.”
I will make his posterity endure forever and his throne as the days of heaven.” “If his sons forsake my law and walk not according to my ordinances,
If they violate my statutes and keep not my commands.” “I will punish their crime with a rod and their guilt with stripes.
Yet my mercy I will not take from him, nor will I belie my faithfulness.”
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After the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and the king then listened to them.
They forsook the temple of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and began to serve the sacred poles and the idols; and because of this crime of theirs, wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem.
Although prophets were sent to them to convert them to the LORD, the people would not listen to their warnings.
Then the spirit of God possessed Zechariah, son of Jehoiada the priest. He took his stand above the people and said to them: “God says, ‘Why are you transgressing the LORD’S commands, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have abandoned the LORD, he has abandoned you.'”
But they conspired against him, and at the king’s order they stoned him to death in the court of the LORD’S temple.
Thus King Joash was unmindful of the devotion shown him by Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, and slew his son. And as he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and avenge.”
At the turn of the year a force of Arameans came up against Joash. They invaded Judah and Jerusalem, did away with all the princes of the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.
Though the Aramean force came with few men, the LORD surrendered a very large force into their power, because Judah had abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers. So punishment was meted out to Joash.
After the Arameans had departed from him, leaving him in grievous suffering, his servants conspired against him because of the murder of the son of Jehoiada the priest. They killed him on his sickbed. He was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
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At the beginning, human nature was golden and gleaming because of its likeness to the undefiled Good. For he says Behold, you are beautiful, my close one, behold, you are beautiful: your eyes are doves. By these expressions the Word teaches that restoration of the soul’s beauty consists in her drawing near once again to the true Beauty from which she departed.the loveliness of her eyes that is extolled. The praise given to her eyes is to the effect that they are doves, and to me the sense of this seems to be as follows. We see faces in the clear pupils of eyes that are focused on someone (for people who can give the scientific explanations of such things say that the eye activates its vision by receiving the impressions of the images given off by visible bodies), and for this reason it becomes a commendation of the eyes’ form that the shape of a dove shows in their pupils. For people receive in themselves the likeness of whatever they gaze upon intently. Since, then, one who no longer gazes upon flesh and blood looks toward the spiritual life, as the apostle says, and lives in the Spirit, and walks by the Spirit (cf. Gal 5:25), it follows that the soul that has been delivered from bodily passion is attested as having in its eyes the shape of the dove—that is, the imprint of the spiritual life is beheld in the clear vision of the soul. Since, then, her purified eye has received the imprint of the dove, she is also capable of beholding the beauty of the Bridegroom.9 For now for the first time, the virgin gazes upon the form of the Bridegroom, now, that is, that she has the dove in her eyes (for “No one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord!’ except by the Holy Spirit” [1 Cor 12:3]), and she says Behold, you are beautiful, my kinsman, and glorious. “From this point, nothing else seems lovely to me, but I have turned away from all things that were thought noble before. My judgment of what is noble no longer errs so as to deem anything lovely besides you.
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Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.
But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light;
but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.”
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The LORD swore to David a firm promise from which he will not withdraw: “Your own offspring I will set upon your throne.” “If your sons keep my covenant and the decrees which I shall teach them, their sons, too, forever shall sit upon your throne.” For the LORD has chosen Zion; He prefers her for his dwelling. “Zion is my resting place forever; In her will I dwell, for I prefer her.” “In her will I make a horn to sprout forth for David; I will place a lamp for my anointed.
his enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon him my crown shall shine.”
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When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she began to kill off the whole royal family.
But Jehosheba, daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash, his son, and spirited him away, along with his nurse, from the bedroom where the princes were about to be slain. She concealed him from Athaliah, and so he did not die.
For six years he remained hidden in the temple of the LORD, while Athaliah ruled the land.
But in the seventh year, Jehoiada summoned the captains of the Carians and of the guards. He had them come to him in the temple of the LORD, exacted from them a sworn commitment, and then showed them the king’s son.
The captains did just as Jehoiada the priest commanded. Each one with his men, both those going on duty for the sabbath and those going off duty that week, came to Jehoiada the priest.
He gave the captains King David’s spears and shields, which were in the temple of the LORD.
And the guards, with drawn weapons, lined up from the southern to the northern limit of the enclosure, surrounding the altar and the temple on the king’s behalf.
Then Jehoiada led out the king’s son and put the crown and the insignia upon him. They proclaimed him king and anointed him, clapping their hands and shouting, “Long live the king!”
Athaliah heard the noise made by the people, and appeared before them in the temple of the LORD.
When she saw the king standing by the pillar, as was the custom, and the captains and trumpeters near him, with all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, she tore her garments and cried out, “Treason, treason!”
Then Jehoiada the priest instructed the captains in command of the force: “Bring her outside through the ranks. If anyone follows her,” he added, “let him die by the sword.” He had given orders that she should not be slain in the temple of the LORD.
She was led out forcibly to the horse gate of the royal palace, where she was put to death.
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD as one party and the king and the people as the other, by which they would be the LORD’S people; and another covenant, between the king and the people.
Thereupon all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and demolished it. They shattered its altars and images completely, and slew Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altars. After appointing a detachment for the temple of the LORD, Jehoiada
All the people of the land rejoiced and the city was quiet, now that Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the royal palace.
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Of the clause ‘Your kingdom come’ in the second petition [of the Our Father], the pure heart desires that the kingdom of its Father may come at once; viz., either that whereby Christ reigns day by day in the saints (which comes to pass when the devil’s rule is cast out of our hearts by the destruction of foul sins, and God begins to hold sway over us by the sweet odour of virtues, and, fornication being overcome, charity reigns in our hearts together with tranquillity, when rage is conquered; and humility, when pride is trampled under foot). Or [this phrase could mean] that which is promised in due time to all who are perfect, and to all the sons of God, when it will be said to them by Christ: Come you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; (Matthew 25:34) (as the heart) with fixed and steadfast gaze, so to speak, yearns and longs for it and says to Him Your kingdom come. For it knows by the witness of its own conscience that when He shall appear, it will presently share His lot.
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