Poems and Prose (Poets) by Hopkins Gerard

Author:Hopkins, Gerard [Hopkins, Gerard]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

SERMON

FOR SUNDAY EVENING NOV. 23 1879 AT BEDFORD LEIGH1 – LUKE ii 33. Et erat pater ejus et mater mirantes super his quae dicebantur de illo (text taken at random)

ST. JOSEPH though he often carried our Lord Jesus Christ in his arms and the Blessed Virgin though she gave him birth and suckled him at her breast, though they seldom cither of them had the holy child out of their sight and knew more of him far than all others, yet when they heard what Holy Simeon a stranger had to say of him the Scripture says they wondered. Not indeed that they were surprised and had thought to hear something different but that they gave their minds up to admiration and dwelt with reverent wonder on all God’s doings about the child their sacred charge. Brethren, see what a thing it is to hear about our Lord Jesus Christ, to think of him and dwell upon him; it did good to these two holiest people, the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph, even with him in the house God thought fit to give them lights by the mouth of strangers. It cannot but do good to us, who have more need of holiness, who easily forget Christ, who have not got him before our eyes to look at. And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him at communion, yet to hear of him and dwell on the thought of him will do us good.

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