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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 6th Day in Octave
DESCRIPTION:THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS \nOF GOD \nFrom a treatise by St John Eudes \n◊◊◊ \nOur loving Savior\, in various places in the Scriptures\, assures us that he is \never watchful over us\, that we are and always will be in his most compassionate \ncare. How he carries us in his heart… In one place [in Isaiah] he even repeats it \nfive times in succession: Hearken to me\, O house of Jacob\, all the remnant of \nthe house of Israel\, who have been borne by me from your birth\, carried from \nthe womb; even to your old age I am He\, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I \nhave made\, and I will bear; I will carry and will save. \nElsewhere [in Scripture] he tells us the same thing in many ways. \nAlthough\, he says\, it may sometimes happen that a mother can forget her child\, \nyet he will never forget us\, and he has engraved us on his hands to have us ever \nbefore him. Whoever touches one of us\, he says\, touches the apple of his eye. \nAgain\, we should not be anxious about how we are going to get enough to eat or \nwear\, because he well knows our needs and takes care of them. He has even \ncounted the very hairs of our heads\, and not one shall perish. He also tells us \nthat as he loves his Father so his Father loves us\, and that his own love for us is \nthe same as his Father’s love for him. He wishes us to be where he is — that is\, he \nwishes us to dwell with him in his Father’s heart… \nLet us beware of being dependent on the power or favor of our friends\, or \non our own possessions\, on our minds\, knowledge\, strength\, good desires and \nresolutions\, prayers\, or even on the faith we believe we have in God\, or on \nhuman means of any sort\, or on anything in creation\, but rely entirely on the \nmercy of God. We should indeed use all these things I have mentioned\, and \ncontribute in every way we can to the suppression of vice\, the practice of virtue\, \nthe carrying to completion of whatever God has entrusted to our care\, and the \nfulfillment of the duties which accompany our station in life. What we have to do \nis to give up all tendency to rely on our own means\, and put our trust in the \nabsolute goodness of our Lord. Therefore we must take as much care\, and work \nas hard\, as if we expected no help from God\, and at the same time regard this \nwork of ours as nothing\, and put all our hope in God’s mercy. \nThis is what the Holy Spirit exhorts us to do\, speaking through the mouth \nof the King and Prophet David: Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him\, and \nhe will act. And elsewhere: Cast your burden on the Lord\, and he will sustain \nyou. And in the words of Peter\, the leader of the Apostles\, the Spirit advises us to \ncast all our anxieties on God\, for he cares about us. Our Lord spoke the same \ncomfort to Saint Catherine of Siena: “My daughter\, forget yourself and think of \nme\, and I shall never cease to think of you.”
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