1 May 2022
Recognize to whom you owe the fact that you exist, that you breathe,
that you understand, that you are wise, and, above all, that you know God and
hope for the kingdom of heaven. You have been made a child of God, co-heir with
Christ. Where did you get all this, and from whom? …. What benefactor has
enabled you to look out upon the beauty of the sky, the sun in its course, the
circle of the moon, the countless number of stars, with the harmony and order
that are theirs, like the music of a harp? Who has blessed you with rain, with
the art of husbandry, with different kinds of food, with the arts, with houses,
with laws, with states, with a life of humanity and culture, with friendship
and the easy familiarity of kinship? … Is it not God who asks you now in your
turn to show yourself generous … Because we have received from him so many
wonderful gifts, will we not be ashamed to refuse him this one thing only, our
generosity?
Saint Gregory Nazianzen
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