8 November 2023
If any oppressive sorrow has come upon you, either by an injury bought
on by others, or by a besetting fault, or by overwhelming, domestic loss or if
you have been made sad for any reason at all, you should by no means gather at
that hour to murmur against one another and place the blame on God's judgments
but rather come together at the church and on bended knee pray to the Lord that
he may send the grace of his consolation, lest the sadness of the world which
brings death swallow you up. You yourselves also drive away the harmful disease
of sadness from your heart by the frequent sweetness of psalm-singing.
The Venable Bede
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