DAILY CONTEMPLATION

June 24, 2025 ~ Paone 17, 1741

What sort of command, do you think, have things in heaven and the holy angels received?
What sort of command has God given them?
What, but that they praise Him? Blessed are they whose business is to praise God!
They plough not, they sow not, they grind not, they cook not;
for these are works of necessity, and there is no necessity there.
They steal not, they plunder not, they commit no adultery;
for these are works of iniquity, and there is no iniquity there.
They break not bread for the hungry, they clothe not the naked, they take not in the stranger,
they visit not the sick, they set not at one the contentious, they bury not the dead;
for these are works of mercy, and there there is no misery, for mercy to be shown to.
O blessed they! Think we that we too shall be like this?
Ah! let us sigh, let us groan in sighing.
And what are we, that we should be there?
Mortal, outcast, abject, earth and ashes!
But He, who has promised, is Almighty …
St. Augustine