DAILY CONTEMPLATION

October 8, 2025 ~ Thoout 28, 1742

Let then such as these, the preachers of the Gospel who do not seek or do any other thing,
but who in genuine charity preach the Gospel,
let them come into the house, and say, “Peace to this house” (Lk 10:5).
They speak not with the mouth only; they pour out that of which they are full;
they preach peace, and they have peace.
They are not as those of whom it was said, “Peace, peace, and there is no peace” (Ezk 13:10).
What is, “Peace, peace, and there is no peace” ?
 They preach it, but they have it not; they praise it and they love it not; they say, and do not…
Whoso then is full of peace, and salutes, saying, “‘Peace to this house,’
if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on it; if not,”
for​ perhaps there is no one of peace there, yet he who saluted has lost nothing,
“it will return to you.”
It shall return to you, though it never departed from you.
For this He would mean to say:
It profits you that you have declared it; it has not profited him at all who has not received it;
you have not lost your reward, because he has remained empty;
it is rendered you for your good will, it is rendered you for the charity which you have bestowed,
He will render it to you who has given you assurance of it by that Angelic voice,
“Peace on earth to men of good will” (Lk 2:14).
St. Augustine