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We are in the long green season after Pentecost — the weeks of ordinary time in which the Church tends its life in the world. A season for wisdom literature, for letters of counsel, for texts on the daily practice of virtue.
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John Chrysostom · c. 407
Our condition here, indeed, is such as you have heard. But our condition hereafter how shall we endure, when we are compelled to give our account for each of those who have been entrusted to us? For our penalty is…
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