Saturday, December 30, 2017

Dominica Infra Octavam Nativitatis: " according to our individual works will the True and Just Judge apportion to us punishment or reward"

Luke 2: 33-40
In that time, his father and mother were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning him. And so on.

Homily by St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.
Bk. ii. on Luke ii.
We see that God's abounding grace is poured forth on all by the birth of the Lord, and that the gift of prophecy is not denied to the righteous, but to the unbelieving. Simeon prophesieth that our Lord Jesus Christ is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel, setting forth that the just and the unjust reap different fruits from the coming of the Saviour; so will it be with us; according to our individual works will the True and Just Judge apportion to us punishment or reward.

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