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From True Devotion
To the Blessed Virgin Mary, No. 228
Of Judgment, and
the Punishment of Sinners In all things look to the end; and how thou wilt
stand before that strict Judge (Heb. 10:31) to whom nothing is hid, who is
not appeased with gifts, nor admitteth excuses, but will judge according
to right. O wretched and foolish sinner, who sometimes art in terror at the
countenance of an angry man, what answer wilt thou make to God who knoweth
all thy wickedness (Job 9:2)! Why dost thou not provide for thyself (Luke
16:9) against the day of judgement, when no man can be excused of defended
by another, but every one shall be a sufficient burden for
himself!
Luke 16:1-8
The Crafty Steward
And he said also
to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the
same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods. And he called him,
and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy
stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer. And the steward said
within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the
stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed. I know what I will
do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me
into their houses. Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors,
he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord? But he said: An hundred
barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and
write fifty. Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said:
An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.
And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely:
for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children
of light.
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