Today I bring you two excerpts from the Second Reading of Office of Readings of the Liturgy of the Hours for the Saturday of the Second Week of Lent, They were taken from “the treatise on Flight from the World “ by Saint Ambrose, bishop.
Where a man’s heart is, there is his treasure also. God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy. Let us reach out with our hearts to possess that good, let us exist in it and live in it, let us hold fast to it, that good which is beyond all we can know or see and is marked by perpetual peace and tranquillity, a peace which is beyond all we can know or understand.
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Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show. You must take refuge in him. He is your refuge and your strength.
Courtesy: Divine Office.org
Where is your treasure? Is it still found in the false escape of alcohol or drugs? Or something else, such as an inordinate interest in a pop culture fandom? How about pornography? Your treasure should be found only in God and in all of His promises which He does fulfill for those who hope and trust in Him.
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