Monday of Sexagesima Week: From The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Louis Paschal Guéranger, O.S.B., 1904.
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Monday of Sexagesima Week: From The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Louis Paschal Guéranger, O.S.B., 1904. . All flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. The terrible lesson, then, which men had received by being driven out of paradise in the person of our first parents, had been without effect. Neither the certainty of death, when they would have to stand before the divine Judge, nor the humiliations which attend man’s first coming into this world, nor the pains and fatigues and trials which beset the whole path of life, had subdued men’s hearts or brought them into submission to that sovereign Master Whose hand lay thus heavy upon them. They had the divine promise that a Savior should be given to them, and that this Redeemer (Who was to be the Son of her that was to crush the serpent’s head) would not only bring them salvation, but would moreover reinstate them in all the happiness and honors they had lost. But even this was not enough to make them rise above the base passions of corrupt nature. The example of Adam’s nine hundred years’ penance, and the admonitions he could so feelingly give who had received such proofs of God’s love and anger, began to lose their influence upon his children; and when he at last descended into the grave, his posterity grew more and more heedless of what they owed to their Creator. The long life, which had been granted to man in this the first age of the world, was made but a fresh means of offending Him who gave it. When, finally, the sons of Seth took to themselves wives of the family of Cain, the human race reached the height of wickedness, rebelled against the Lord, and made their own passions their god.
Monday of Sexagesima Week: From The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Louis Paschal Guéranger, O.S.B., 1904.
Monday of Sexagesima Week: From The…
Monday of Sexagesima Week: From The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Louis Paschal Guéranger, O.S.B., 1904.
Monday of Sexagesima Week: From The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Louis Paschal Guéranger, O.S.B., 1904. . All flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. The terrible lesson, then, which men had received by being driven out of paradise in the person of our first parents, had been without effect. Neither the certainty of death, when they would have to stand before the divine Judge, nor the humiliations which attend man’s first coming into this world, nor the pains and fatigues and trials which beset the whole path of life, had subdued men’s hearts or brought them into submission to that sovereign Master Whose hand lay thus heavy upon them. They had the divine promise that a Savior should be given to them, and that this Redeemer (Who was to be the Son of her that was to crush the serpent’s head) would not only bring them salvation, but would moreover reinstate them in all the happiness and honors they had lost. But even this was not enough to make them rise above the base passions of corrupt nature. The example of Adam’s nine hundred years’ penance, and the admonitions he could so feelingly give who had received such proofs of God’s love and anger, began to lose their influence upon his children; and when he at last descended into the grave, his posterity grew more and more heedless of what they owed to their Creator. The long life, which had been granted to man in this the first age of the world, was made but a fresh means of offending Him who gave it. When, finally, the sons of Seth took to themselves wives of the family of Cain, the human race reached the height of wickedness, rebelled against the Lord, and made their own passions their god.