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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:TRUE REPENTANCE \nFrom a sermon by St Ambrose3 \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\, \nsince they are already known and manifest to God\, and to the angels\, and even \nto the blessed in heaven? Confession delivers the soul from death. Confession \nopens the door to heaven. Confession brings us hope of salvation. Because of \nthis the Scripture says through Isaiah: “First tell your iniquities\, that you may \nbe justified.” Here we are shown that they will not be saved who\, during their \nlife\, do not confess their sins. Neither will that confession deliver you which is \nmade without true repentance. For true repentance is grief of heart and sorrow \nof soul because of the evils one has committed. True repentance causes us to \ngrieve over them with the firm intention of never committing them again. \nAnd even though every day we live may rightly be a day of repentance\, yet \nis it in these days more appropriate to confess our sins\, to fast\, and to give alms \nto the poor\, since in these days you may wash clean the sins of the whole year. \nTherefore I counsel all of you\, and I exhort each one of you to repair whatever \nyou know within your soul is blameworthy. Whoever among you discerns \nwithin yourself what is unworthy in a Christian\, make amends. \nWhat does it mean to give tithes faithfully\, but that no one should offer \nto God [anything that] is defective or stunted. For of all things which the Lord \nbestows on us\, a tenth part we reserve to God. So it is not lawful to keep what \nis reserved to God. And if you do not give God’s tenth part\, God will take nine \nparts from you. \nAgain\, if you know in your own heart that you have taken something \nunjustly from another\, make amends by restoring what you have unjustly taken. \nFor if you do not render the tenth to God\, which is reserved for Him\, and \n[return] to another what you took from him unjustly\, you are a person who no \nlonger fears God and does not know the meaning of true repentance\, or of true \nconfession 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 \nif you have little ought to give little; as the holy Tobias taught his son: “Give \nalms out of your substance\, and do not turn away your face from the poor\, \nthat the face of the Lord may not be turned away from you”. \n  \n3 From The Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers\, Henry Regnery Co.\, 1958\, pp. 13-15.7 \n  \n  \n 
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