examination of the heart 426 O your happiness! You always have with you this Doctor who can cure even the many illnesses of your soul at every moment! 3. “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mt 9:13). Consider that God cannot be sadder than when He sees those, for whose salvation He gave His life, succumb to perdition by their own accord. Therefore, lest anyone, tossed about in the immense sea of vices and fearful of the divine judgments, fall into despair of his salvation, the Savior of the world wanted to openly confirm that He has come not to call by grace the righteous, but sinners. Since the righteous are certain of salvation, whereas sinners of punishment, He openly declares that He is particularly working and caring for the salvation of sinners, as He desires all to be saved. Therefore, the way to Heaven is not closed to anyone, if only he wants to enter it and abandon someday at last the infernal way of sensual pleasure. Here, sinners can rejoice, because the Son of God, coming to call and to save them, left the throne of glory and came to a prison of degradation. But you shall have the most miserable future if you wickedly destroy the sheep, which the heavenly Shepherd came to find. [f.136v] FOR THE FEAST OF THE TRANSFER OF THE BODY OF ST. STANISLAUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR204 Before Holy Communion 1. “I am the [G]ood [S]hepherd” (Jn 10:11). Consider that the Divine Goodness shone forth very much in the creation of the world and in giving it to humankind to inhabit; in providing numerous pastures for the same, namely, so 204 P. Naruszewicz, BS, vol. XI, Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Universita lateranense, Roma 1968, p. 1365 (s.v. Stanislao, vesc. di Cracovia, santo, martire): “St. Stanislaus’ body was transferred from the cemetery beside the church of St. Michael (the place of his martyrdom) to the Cathedral church of Wawel in Krakow (1088).” Cf. B.B. Szczesniak, NCE, vol. XIII, p. 642 (s.v. Stanislaus of Cracow, St.).
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