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Subject: [TAC] Daily Excerpt for September 21 2006
Date: September 20, 2006 08:38 pm

Today's excerpt is from St. Gregory the Great:

"Love is patient because it bears serenely the injury it suffers. It is
kind, because it repays evil with good. It is not jealous, because it
covets nothing in this world: it does not know what it is to envy worldly
prosperity. It is not boastful, because it yearns only for spiritual
reward and it is not carried away by external things. It is not arrogant,
because it thrives only on the love of God and neighbor and avoids
whatever would take it from the path of righteousness. It is not covetous,
because although it ardently pursues its own spiritual goals, it does not
desire the goods of others. It does not insist on its own way, because it
scorns as alien those things it temporarily possesses here below: it seeks
to hold on only to what is enduring. It is not irritable, and even though
injuries seek to provoke it, it does not let itself have any desire for
vengeance, for no matter how difficult a time it may have in this life, it
hopes for greater rewards in the next. It is not resentful, because it has
invested its thought in the love of purity, and having rooted out all
hatred it is incapable of harboring in its heart any type of aversion. It
does not rejoice at wrong, because it feels affection for others and does
not rejoice at seeing the ruin of its enemies. It rejoices in the right,
because by loving others as it loves itself, it is as pleased to see
goodness in them as if it were indeed something to its own personal
advantage." ("Moralia", X, 7-8, 10).

God Bless.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us!

St. Gianna Beretta Molla, pray for us!

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Art and Lupe Garcia, OCDS
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Subject: [TAC] Daily Excerpt for September 21 2006 Date: September 20, 2006 08:38 pm Today's excerpt is from St. Gregory the Great: "Love is patient because it bears serenely the injury it suffers. It is kind, because it repays evil with good. It is not jealous, because it covets nothing in this world: it does not know what it is to envy worldly prosperity. It is not boastful, because it yearns only for spiritual reward and it is not carried away by external things. It is not arrogant, because it thrives only on the love of God and neighbor and avoids whatever would take it from the path of righteousness. It is not covetous, because although it ardently pursues its own spiritual goals, it does not desire the goods of others. It does not insist on its own way, because it scorns as alien those things it temporarily possesses here below: it seeks to hold on only to what is enduring. It is not irritable, and even though injuries seek to provoke it, it does not let itself have any desire for vengeance, for no matter how difficult a time it may have in this life, it hopes for greater rewards in the next. It is not resentful, because it has invested its thought in the love of purity, and having rooted out all hatred it is incapable of harboring in its heart any type of aversion. It does not rejoice at wrong, because it feels affection for others and does not rejoice at seeing the ruin of its enemies. It rejoices in the right, because by loving others as it loves itself, it is as pleased to see goodness in them as if it were indeed something to its own personal advantage." ("Moralia", X, 7-8, 10). God Bless. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us! St. Gianna Beretta Molla, pray for us! -- Art and Lupe Garcia, OCDS art_lupe@theapostoliccrusade.org The Apostolic Crusade PO Box 1724 La Mirada, Ca 90637-1724 Home Page: http://www.theapostoliccrusade.org/ Introduction Letter: http://www.theapostoliccrusade.org/IntroductionLetter.htm To unsubscribe to this e-mail service, please reply to this email with “unsubscribe” in the subject field. Thank You. ----- Message sent by KolbeNet WebTools http://WebTools.KolbeNet.com/
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