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SUMMARY:Lenten Weekday
DESCRIPTION:AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS\nFrom a sermon by St Leo the Great 2\n◊◊◊\nLet us take refuge in the ever-present mercy of God\, and so that we may\nwith becoming reverence celebrate the holy Pasch of the Lord\, let all the faithful\nseek to make holy their hearts. Let harshness give way to mildness\, let wrath\ngrow gentle\, forgive one another your offenses\, and let him who seeks to be\nforgiven be not himself a seeker of vengeance. For when we say Forgive us our\ndebts\, as we also forgive our debtors\, we bind ourselves in the most enduring\nbonds unless we fulfill what we profess. And if the most sacred contract of this\nprayer has not in every respect been fulfilled\, let every person examine their\nconscience\, and gain the pardon of his own sins by forgiving those of others. \nFor when the Lord says: If you will forgive others their offences\, your\nheavenly Father will forgive you also your offenses\, what He is here asking is\nclose to each one of us; for the sentence of the Judge will depend on the\nclemency of the supplicant. For the Just and Merciful Receiver of the prayers of\nmen has laid it down that our own generosity is the measure of His fairness to\nourselves; so that He will not treat with strict justness those whom He finds not\neager for revenge. And generosity is becoming to kind and gentle souls. Nothing\nis more fitting than that a person imitate his Maker\, and that as best he can he\nis a doer of the works of God. For when the hungry are fed\, the naked clothed\,\nthe sick assisted\, are not the hands that minister but completing the help that\nGod gives\, and is not the generosity of the giver also a gift from God? \nHe who has no need of a helper to perform His works of mercy\, so orders\nHis own omnipotence that it by means of mortals that He comes to the aid of\nmortals. And rightly do we give thanks to God for the ministers of that charity\nwhose works of mercy are seen in His servants. It was because of this the Lord\nHimself said to His disciples: So let your light shine before others\, that they\nmay see your good works\, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. \n2 The Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers – vol. 2 – Henry Regnery Co – Chicago – 1958 – pg\n127.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/lenten-weekday-6/
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