My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

withstanding his present weakness. You may fall into
the same faults or perhaps into a worse fault. But
supposing you remain upright, to whom are you indebted
for it, if not to the pure mercy of Gqd? "-
Readings with the Sainls.
One day St. Peter said to our Saviour, as we read in
the Gospel of St. Matthew (xviii. 21): "Lord, how
often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive
him? till seven times?" Jesus replied: "I say
not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven
times;" -i.c., not only frequently, but in~lumerable
times, in fact always.
'The apostle St. Paul admonishes us: "Be ye kind
one to another, merciful, forgiving one agother, even
as God hath forgiven you in Christ" (Eph. iv. 32).
"HOW patiently Christ, the king of heaven, bore with
the apostles, enduring at their hands many incivilities.
for they were but poor, rough, and illiterate fishermen.
Flow much more ought we to bear with our neighbor.
if he treats us with unkindness." - ST. PEIILIP.
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ET US be kind if we would promote the interests
'I E of the Sacred Ileart, of which kindness was the
special characteristic. Let it not be m isolated acts -
'few and far between'; no, it must be like prayeran
habztztal disposition of heart, which is ready to manifest
itself without any effort, at all seasons and in aU
circumstances, and thus it will he with hearts which are
united to that Heart of love. Kindness will flow from
them, as it were, naturally, just as the flowers gve forth
their perfume, the birds their song, and as the sun shines
d,,wn alike on good and bad as it goes on its daily dr-
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