18 November 2021 The New Creation
For to despise the present age, not to love
transitory things, unreservedly to stretch out the mind in humility to God and
our neighbor, to preserve patience against offered insults and, with patience
guarded, to repel the pain of malice from the heart, to give one’s property to
the poor, not to covet that of others, to esteem the friend in God, on God’s
account to love even those who are hostile, to mourn at the affliction of a
neighbor, not to exult in the death of one who is an enemy, this is the new creature
whom the Master of the nations seeks with watchful eye amid the other
disciples, saying: “If, then, any be in Christ a new creature, the old things
are passed away. Behold all things are made new.” (2Cor. 5:17)
Saint Gregory the Great
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