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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE DEPTH OF \nREPENTANCE \nBy St Ambrose \n◊◊◊ \nHow many sins each of us commits every hour\, yet people feel no need to \nconfess their sins! By contrast\, the great and mighty King David could not abide \nthe awareness of his sin even for a moment\, but immediately confessed it and \nwith immense sorrow laid it before the Lord. Can you show me nowadays any \nwealthy and distinguished person who will not take it amiss if he or she is \naccused of some sin? Yet that renowned King\, approved by so many divine \noracles\, was not displeased and angered at being charged by a private person \nwith grave sin\, but admitted it and sorrowfully lamented his guilt. The result \nwas that his deep sorrow moved the Lord\, so that Nathan could say: Because \nyou have repented the Lord has taken away your sin. The King’s prompt \npardon was proof of the depth of his repentance\, since it could remove even an \noffense as heinous as his was. \nOthers\, when reproached by priests\, make their sin worse by trying to \ndeny or defend it\, so that when one might have expected a change of heart their \nguilt is actually increased. By contrast\, when the Lord’s saints\, who long to fight \nthe holy combat to the finish and to run the race of salvation\, happen to fall \nthrough the frailty of human nature rather than from any inclination to sin\, \ntheir sense of shame brings them to their feet again\, more eager than ever to run \nthe race; their energy is renewed for even harder struggles\, so that their fall\, far \nfrom being a hindrance\, becomes the motive for an even speedier advance. \nWe can see another way in which sin can benefit us\, and how it is \nprovidential that it surprised the saints. They are set before us as models\, and \ntherefore the Lord has seen to it that they too should sometimes fall; for if they \nhad run their course untouched by faults despite the many hazards of this \nworld\, they would have made us who are weaker think of them as possessed of a \nhigher and even superhuman nature that prevented them from sinning and \nsharing the experience of guilt. Such a view would deter those lacking this \nnature from imitating them\, for they would regard it as impossible. The grace of \nGod therefore passed them by momentarily\, so that their lives might be models \nfor us to follow\, and we might learn from their actions not only to be blameless\, \nbut also to repent.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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