the mystical temple of god 604 ment fell without any human force or physical cause, and so announced beforehand his death. For with great love and diligence, he always attended that this light be never lacking to that eternal and boundless Light that is Jesus Christ, hidden among us under the appearance of bread. Oh lover of Christ! In what a holy and wise way you will have acted, if that lamp or torch of God’s commandments never falls in you! Falls? You too will be suffocated in a rather serious death if you are next to spiritual collapse. For “the one who sins shall die” (God said through Ezekiel) (Ez 18:20). To live forever, kindle within you the eternal fire of the lamp of Divine Law as the Vestals did. As this lamp burns and shines forth in your hands it will lead you to the light of the beatific vision. It is not a vain wish that after your death the hymn of triumph be sung for you: May eternal light shine on him, because he was kind. He lived as a light, may he be a light in dying. CHAPTER 9 The Ornaments of the Mystical Temple The honey-tongued Bernard quite admirably teaches that virtue is the principle ornament of a Christian when, contemplating the first man, he speaks as follows: “It seems to me that I see the first man clothed in four virtues, namely Mercy and Truth, Justice and Peace,82 from the very beginning of his creation; and, as the prophet mentions, ‘he was clothed with the robe of salvation’ (Is 61:10). For in these four virtues is the unimpaired condition of salvation, and without all of the German-Polish Province (1659-1662) and finally as the first Provincial of the newly erected Polish Province (1662). On account of his virtuous life he deserved to earn a place in the list of Venerable Servants of God of the Pious Schools. Father Papczyński had him as his Master for the first year of his novitiate (1654-1655). Father John Dominic of the Cross died in the year 1662. Cf. Positio, pp. 21, 27-28. 82 This recalls the Scripture verse: “mercy and truth have met each other, justice and peace have kissed” (Ps 85:10).
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