Holy Wit

St. Benedict now asks us where are we to go?

If hearing this thou answerest, “I am he,” God saith to thee: “If thou wilt have true and everlasting life, keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile; turn away from evil and do good; seek after peace and pursue it.”

“Run whilst you have the light of life, that the darkness of death overtake you not.”Citing St. Paul yet again, our Holy Father Benedict reminds the audience that we are sleep walking through life's treacheries.  Both sin and death-- brothers of oblivion-- have taken their share of humanity in their second fall.  As we wake, we must stir ourselves from the torpor of the Void to the call of the Sun.

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him from whom by the sloth of disobedience thou hast gone away.""Sloth of disobedience" is a phrase so unique to St. Benedict that anyone using it invariably has the old abbot in mind. Few historical figures have coined such an exact phrase to transact a perrenial concept—one that binds our civilization's continuity by naming obedience as the very possibility of tradition itself!

In the Extraordinary Rite, today would comprise "Good Samaritan Sunday" [In the Ordinary Rite, this reading is reserved for the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time (usually, mid-July)]:

A continuation of Hexameron (Homily I, cont. 2):

A Few Notes to better understand "The Greatest Generation":

Many scenes of the New Testament depict the Apostles as deities before the eyes of the Gentiles.  Most memorably, in Acts 14:12, Paul and Barnabas are taken as avatars of the Olympian gods:

A continuation of Hexameron (Homily I, cont.)

A continuation from [Hexameron (Homily I)]:

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Laetare Sunday (derived from the Latin verb laetare meaning "to rejoice") is one of the two days in the year with its own special vestments (Rose colored).