December 30 - Sixth Day of the Octave of Christmas
(1Jn.2:12-17; Ps.96:7-11; Lk.2:36-40) “The world with its seductions is passing away but the man who does God’s will endures forever.” Upon what is your eye fixed? Do you seek the Lord as has Anna these many years, “constantly in the temple, worshiping day and night in fasting and prayer,” or are you seduced by “carnal allurements, enticements for the eye, the life of empty show.” Indeed, “all these are from the world” (and what appropriate description of the extreme vanity which grasps the world in this day), and indeed are all passing away into the nothingness from which they spring. And…
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