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Subject: [TAC] Daily Excerpt for December 10 2006 Date: December 9, 2006 08:34 pm Today's excerpt is from St. Cyprian: "Patience is a precept for salvation given us by our Lord our teacher: Whoever endures to the end will be saved. And again: If you persevere in my word, you will truly be my disciples; you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Dear brethren, we must endure and persevere if we are to attain the truth and freedom we have been allowed to hope for; faith and hope are the very meaning of our being Christians, but if faith and hope are to bear their fruit, patience is necessary. We do not seek glory now, in the present, but we look for future glory, as Saint Paul instructs us when he says: By hope we were saved. Now hope which is seen is not hope; how can a man hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it in patience. Patient waiting is necessary if we are to be perfected in what we have begun to be, and if we are to receive from God what we hope for and believe. Paul warns us not to grow weary in good works through impatience, not to be distracted or overcome by temptations and so give up in the midst of our pilgrimage of praise and glory, and allow our past good deeds to count for nothing because what was begun falls short of completion." (From a Treatise on the value of patience [Office of Readings]) 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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