Quadregesima
O LORD, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights; Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness, and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
This homily was traditionally said on Quardragesima... another name of this Sunday, which marked the start of Lent, as it was about forty days before easter.Chrysostom wrote,Admonition and Exhortation for Communion Isaiah 58 Psalm 51, 54 | 119:1–32 2 Corinthians vi. 1 & St. Matthew iv. 1
It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God
For the devil would not have assailed thee, unless he had seen thee brought to greater honor. Hence, for example, from the beginning, he attacked Adam, because he saw him in the enjoyment of great dignity. For this reason he arrayed himself against Job, because he saw him crowned and proclaimed by the God of all.
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Legio Christi-Ecclesia Militans
"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another" [St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 14:19]
* ORDO CENTURIONUM * IN HOC SIGNO VINCES * TIME DEUM ET OPERARE IUSTITIAM
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