Tuesday, October 5 : Saint Thomas More
Now when we have received our Lord and have him in our body, let us not then let him alone, getting us forth about other things, looking no more unto him, but let all our business be about him. Let us by devout prayer talk to him, by devout meditation talk with him. Let us say with the prophet: “I will hear what our Lord will speak within me” (Ps 85[84]: 9). For surely, if we (…) attend unto him, he will not fail with good inspirations to speak such things to us, within us, as shall serve to the great spiritual comfort and profit of our soul. Let us then be both Martha and also Mary. And, therefore, let us with Martha provide that all our inward business may be pertaining to him, in making cheer to him, and to his company for his sake: that is to say, to poor folk, of whom he takes every one not only for his disciple, but also as for himself. For he himself said: “What you have done to one of the least of these my brethren, you have done to me” (Mt 25:40) (…) Let us endeavor ourselves to keep him still, and let us say with his two disciples that were going to the castle of Emmaus: “Tarry with us, good Lord” (Lk 24:29). And then shall we be sure that he will not go from us unless we unkindly put him from us.
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