My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

notabiy, ,meekness, humility, patience, charity, kind4
aess, forbearance, forgiveness of injuries, love of prayer,
zeal for souk, self-restraint, self-denial, and conformity
to the will of God.
The Gospel tells us that our blesoed %viour went
ahout doing good to all, relieving suffering humanity,
healing the sick, comforting the afflicted, blessing and
embracing little children, and, while denouncing the
iniquity of the proud Pharisee, treating the poor despised
sinners with the greatest mercy, gentleness, and compassion.
If The meekness of our divine Sa-vi~nr,'~ as tke Most
Rev. Dr. hloriartv observes "shows itdf in a Darticular
manner in' His society with His chosen Ampanions.
He has told us Himself how He acted among
them. 'You know that the princes of the Gentiles
lord it over them, and they that are the greater, exercise
power over then; it shall not be so among you, but
whosoever shall be the greater among you, lei him be
your minister, and he that wfll be the first among pu
shall be your servant. Even as the Son of hlan is not
come to be ministered unto, but to minister. I am in
the midst of you as he that serveth' (Matt. xx. n5-~8;
Luke xxii. 27).
''Look at Him sitting down with them to the lasf
feast of love, and read His tender, farewell discourse
to them. Look at Him risidg up from table and
kneeling to wash their kt. And it mas then He said
-'I have given you an example that as I have done
so you do also.'
"History has not left us a description on w h
authm at least we can alt~gether rely. Certain it
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