Advent
Advent Meditation: Do We Take Pleasure in People or in Paradise?
After having meditated upon the coming of the Savior at the end of the world, we will now meditate on His coming and His reign in our hearts by grace, and we shall see, First, that this reign is full of sweetness and of joy; second, that all the joys of the world are not to be compared to it. We will then make the resolution, first, to place all our delight in God alone, and our pleasure in His good pleasure; second, to maintain, by a habit of recollection, the reign of Jesus Christ in us; and we will beg of Him, by frequent aspirations, to live forever in our hearts. Our spiritual nosegay shall be the words of St. Paul: “Rejoice in the Lord always.” (Philipp. 4:4), or else the words of St. Augustine: “May everything be bitter to me, that Thou alone may be sweet to my heart.” (Solil. 22)
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In Advent, the Church arouses in us the consciousness of our sin. She also urges us, by restraining our desires and practicing voluntary mortification of the body, to recollect ourselves in meditation and experience a longing desire to return to God.
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