DAILY CONTEMPLATION

May 24, 2023 ~ Pashons 16, 1739

“Thanksgiving and beauty are before Him; holiness and majesty are in His holy place” (Ps 95:6).
Confession and beauty are before Him. Do you love beauty? Do you wish to be beautiful? Confess!
He said not, beauty and confession, but confession and beauty.
You were foul; confess, that you may be fair. You were a sinner; confess, that you may be righteous.
You can deform yourself; you cannot make yourself beautiful…
We love beauty; let us first choose confession, that beauty may follow.
Again, there is one who loves power and greatness; he wishes to be made great as the angels are.
There is a certain greatness in the angels; and such power, that if the angels exert it to the full, it cannot be withstood.
And every man desires the power of the angels, but their righteousness every man loves not.
First love righteousness, and power shall follow you.
For what follows here? Holiness and greatness are in His sanctification.
You were before seeking for greatness: first love righteousness; when you are righteous, you shall also be great.
St. Augustine