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Sing to God with songs of joy
Today, November 22, as our Church celebrates the Memorial of Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr, we are invited to read and reflect on a passage from the first letter of the apostle Paul to the Corinthians (7: 25-40), entitled "Christian chastity". Our treasure, which follows, is from a discourse on the psalms by Saint Agustine, bishop.
In the early third century there was in the city of Rome a virgin named Cecilia, who was given in marriage to a youth named Valerian. She wore sackcloth next to her skin, and fasted, and invoked the saints and angels and virgins, beseeching them to guard her…
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