tailieunhanh - DEATH, JUDGMENT, HEAVEN, AND HELL: MEDITATIONS ON THE FOUR LAST THINGS

"Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will .come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! But know this, that if the householder. | DEATH JUDGMENT HEAVEN AND HELL MEDITATIONS ON THE FOUR LAST THINGS BY SAINT ALPHONSUS DE LIGUORI DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH TAKEN FROM THE WAY OF SALVATION AND OF PERFECTION Including A Rule of Life and Prayers TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN EDITED BY REV. EUGENE GRIMM NEW YORK CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS 1886 Further edited and language modernised by Br. Sean a choir monk 2008 from a text file at Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes truly I say to you he will gird himself and have them sit at table and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch or in the third and finds them so blessed are those servants But know this that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming he would have been awake and would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must be ready for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour. .But if that servant says to himself My master is delayed in coming and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants and to eat and drink and get drunk the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know and will punish him and put him with the unfaithful. And that servant who knew his master s will but did not make ready or act according to his will shall receive a severe beating. But he who did not know and did what deserved a beating shall receive a light beating. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more. Luke 12. 35-48 And Jesus told this parable A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser For three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none. .