Meditation For The Day
Romans 7:6
But now we are loosed from the law of death, wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
But now we are loosed from the law of death, wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
'Day by day our life, as you see, is passing and we are
getting nearer to death, and we must remove hence and be joined to our
brothers and fathers; so that there is need of much vigilance and
attention and preparation of heart. Continued below>>>
We hear the story of the Flood being
read, and the Lord in the Gospels saying: As in the days of Noah they
were eating, drinking, marrying, buying, selling and suddenly the flood
came, so too it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. And perhaps we
wonder in this case how insensibly they were disposed, and were not
rather trembling and terrified. Let us be on the watch then lest we find
ourselves without realizing it in the same state of which we accuse
them. Already it is not the ark which is being got ready, which was
being filled up during one hundred years, but every day the tomb is seen
filled, into which we are about to crawl. Already each day death is at
work [Cf. 2 Cor 4,12.], when each one of our brothers departs. Things
here are more fearful than those there; and so we should be on our
guard. I don't say: we shouldn't eat, drink, or clothe ourselves. I
don't say that; but whether we eat, or drink, or whatever we do, let us
do everything to the glory of God, giving no offence to Jews or Greeks
or to the Church of God, as the Apostle teaches.'