Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God, or the Worthy and Healing Stone of the Sages

We are pilgrims away from the Lord. For we walk by faith and not by sight. But we are bold, and we have good will to be pilgrims away from the body and to be present with the Lord; and therefore we strive, whether absent or present, to please Him. For we must all be manifested before the tribunal of Christ the anointed, so that each may report the things proper to the body, according to what he did, whether good or evil.

He shall not extinguish the smoking wick until he casts judgment unto victory, and in his name the nations shall hope.

Lesson: The Sixth Friday after the Octave of the Epiphany

We have confidence in God our Lord to speak the gospel of God to you in much solicitude. For our exhortation is not from error, nor from impurity, nor in deceit; but just as we have been tested by God so that the gospel might be entrusted to us, so we speak, not as if to please men.