Feast of Saint Edward, King: “The vigilance of a Christian”

NOTE: Today we will hear the Gospel reading for the memorial of St. Edward the King according to the traditional rite.

Lk 12:35–40

At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: “Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! But know this, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would have been awake and would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” Read More

CAUTIOUS SPEECH

 

“When a person is cautious in speech, he becomes gentle, mild, and modest. For when he controls his tongue and does not speak until he has examined, weighed, and considered his words, whether they should be said and to whom, he is indeed practicing modesty, gentleness, and patience.” (Saint Ambrose of Milan)

Avoiding missteps in speech and thus in one’s words is no easy task.

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