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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE SEASON OF PENANCE \nFrom a sermon by St Ambrose \n◊◊◊ \nBehold now is the appointed time\, in which you must confess your sins to \nGod\, and to the priest; and by prayer and by fasting\, by tears and by almsgiving\, \nwipe them away. Why should sinners be ashamed to make known their sins\, since \nthey are already known and manifest to God\, and to the angels\, and even to the \nblessed in heaven? Confession delivers the soul from death. Confession opens the \ndoor to heaven. Confession brings us hope of salvation. Because of this the \nScripture says through Isaiah: “First tell your iniquities\, that you may be \njustified.” Here we are shown that they will not be saved who\, during their life\, do \nnot confess their sins. Neither will that confession deliver you which is made \nwithout true repentance. For true repentance is grief of heart and sorrow of soul \nbecause of the evils one has committed. True repentance causes us to grieve over \nthem with the firm intention of never committing them again. \nAnd even though every day we live may rightly be a day of repentance\, yet is \nit in these days more appropriate to confess our sins\, to fast\, and to give alms to the \npoor\, since in these days you may wash clean the sins of the whole year. Therefore I \ncounsel all of you\, and I exhort each one of you to repair whatever you know within \nyour soul is blameworthy. Whoever among you discerns within yourself what is \nunworthy in a Christian\, make amends. What does it mean to give tithes faithfully\, \nbut that no one should offer to God [anything that] is defective or stunted. For of \nall things which the Lord bestows on us\, a tenth part we reserve to God. So it is not \nlawful to keep what is reserved to God. And if you do not give God’s tenth part\, God \nwill take nine parts from you. \nAgain\, if you know in your own heart that you have taken something unjustly \nfrom another\, make amends by restoring what you have unjustly taken. For if you \ndo not render the tenth to God\, which is reserved for Him\, and [return] to another \nwhat you took from him unjustly\, you are a person who no longer fears God and \ndoes not know the meaning of true repentance\, or of true confession of sins. \nAnd you ought to do this\, since each person should give to the needy \naccording to his means; that is\, that you who have much should give much and if \nyou have little ought to give little; as the holy Tobias taught his son: “Give alms out \nof your substance\, and do not turn away your face from the poor\, that the face of \nthe Lord may not be turned away from you”.
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