Monday of the First Week of Lent

Quotes:

” “You shall not be partial to the poor,” a precept given lest under pretext of showing pity we should judge an unjust judgment. For each individual is to be judged not by his personal importance but by the merits of his case. His wealth need not stand in the way of the rich man, if he makes a good use of it; and poverty of itself can be no recommendation to the poor if in the midst of squalor and want he fails to stay away from wrongdoing.”1

“So then, people on earth are intermingled, and not only intermingled in that the righteous live side by side with the wicked, but they are also indistinguishable. Between the righteous and the wicked there is no apparent difference. Even as in wintertime you cannot tell the healthy trees apart from the withered trees but in beautiful springtime you can tell the difference, so too each person according to his faith and his works will be exposed.”2

Footnotes

  1. Jerome, Letter 79.1.
  2. Incomplete work on Matthew, Homily; Simonetti, M. (Ed.). (2002). Matthew 14-28 (p. 231). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
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