195 part i: sunday meditations for the entire year do the will of the Father and to be obedient to Him till death on the Cross. His most holy apostles, through whom He converted the whole world, were servants of such a kind. Since He is the giver of all good and all virtue, ask Him today for this quality: that you may become to Him like a beast of burden and that you may be with Him always. After Holy Communion 1. “The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them” (Mt 21:6). The true servants of God are those who carry out all they are commanded to do with great readiness, eagerness, and perfection. Truly, what could have been more difficult than to seize and lead away somebody else’s donkey? Its master could have said that their Teacher was unknown to him. Consequently, he could have disagreed about Jesus riding the animal. Nothing of the kind happened, because obedience knows no hindrance, obstacle, or difficulty. Indeed, only the obedient man conquers difficult things; the more difficult the order is that is given to him, the more willingly he accomplishes it. For the true servant of God often turns very important matters over to God, distrusting his own mind with regard to them, and hopes that God would see them through. Although the Lord imposed on the apostles the difficult and burdensome task of bringing Him somebody else’s animal, since they already knew that He was God, they proceeded without any objection to take the donkey. Naturally, the authentic spirit of true obedience consists in the prompt readiness to obey, although the task may seem impossible to achieve. Since obedience [f.40r] is almighty, it overcomes all difficulties and never leaves unfinished something it had once undertaken. Therefore, take caution, you who have received in the Most Holy Sacrament the Son of the immortal Father, obedient unto death, lest you disobey Him to whom you are bound. Beware, lest you push away all those things that you have a duty to accomplish and which God, through His deputies, commands you to
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