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truth: join this to the text of the 17th Sunday, Be careful to keep Unity, and we have a compendium of all the rules of the ascetic and mystic life. Be angry and sin not ; even holy anger must be soon calmed down else, we give place and scope to the devil to interfere with Unity. Egotism is sign of devil's ruling us ; devotedness for others, that the Holy Ghost is with us. How, according to St. Basil, it is by this Unity alone that the benefits of the Incarnation are manifested to the world. The Invited to Gospel. Si. Matth. xxii.) the marriage-feast of the King's Son.) This is the second time we have the parable, which speaks This second shows us how the of divine Union. light has been added to, during these Sundays. The King's Son enters the guest-hall, to see if all have the wedding-garment on ; they have had time to mend their robes. How solicitous the Church is, during these closing Sundays, to make us thoroughly understand the mystery of divine Union. St. Gregory's Homily.

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Epistle.— {Eph. v. See, how ye walk circumspectly, etc.) The final consummation of divine union will infuriate the devil tenfold. They who live, when world is drawing nigh its close, must be very circumspect regarding minimising compromises of liberal Catholics. Concession and cowardly shrinkings. Diminution of revealed truth is always folly. Adaptation of Gospel

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Truth. Jesus redeemed, (he purchased.) Time for us, that we might spend it all in asserting the whole Truth; time well-spent is only when Truth is kept boldly true ; we must be Michaels, with " None like truth !" Our forefathers called these last weeks of Pentecost, holy angel weeks

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