[Sermones "Dormi secure" de tempore]

advent, we all ought to remove and cast away the filth of sins from our hearts. Romans 13: "Let us cast off the works of darkness, etc." The third is that we ought to prepare ourselves and adorn ourselves with good works so that we may worthily celebrate His advent. And thus it is said in Ecclesiasticus 2: "They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts." The fourth is that we ought to send and offer Him precious gifts, just as the three kings did. The second advent is into the mind. Of this it is said in John 14: "We will come to him and will make our abode with him." Before the advent of Christ into the mind through grace, we were easy to seduce and weak in doing good. The third advent will be for the manifestation of judgment. Of which the Psalm says: "Our God shall come manifestly, etc." "A fire shall go before Him." The Lord shall come to judgment to judge the good and the bad and to have an account and reckoning of all and singular deeds. Whence we ought to be prepared against this advent to render Him an account and reckoning of three things. The first is of idle words, because as He Himself says in Matthew 12: "I say to you that for every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account in the day of judgment." How much more for lies, for detractions, for very evil oaths, etc. Wisdom 1: "He that speaketh unjust things cannot be hid." The second is of our own deeds. Whence Athanasius in the Creed: "At whose advent all men shall rise with their bodies and shall render an account, etc." The third is of the goods

bestowed. Matthew 25: "After a long time, the lord of that servant came and reckoned with him" concerning the goods bestowed upon him, how he had guarded them. And first, of the goods of nature, namely, of the soul and body; and of the goods of grace, such as the virtues; and of the goods of fortune, such as riches; and also of the time committed to us to do penance. Whence the Lord says to each: "Render an account of thy stewardship." Luke 16. Therefore we ought to be prepared to render Him an account of all these things, because we do not know when He will come. Luke 12: "Be you prepared, because at what hour you think not, the Son of Man will come." And as it is said in the same place: "Blessed is that servant whom when the Lord shall come He shall find so doing," that is, prepared against the advent of Christ to judgment, because He shall set him over all goods, namely, of glory, which Jesus Christ our Lord may grant us. Amen.

Second Sunday of Advent

Second Sermon

There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars. Luke 21. For because every individual man is judged in death according to his merits, and that judgment is regarding men, therefore it is necessary that a general judgment be made where men, demons, and angels are judged. In this judgment, the Lord will do four things that ought to be done in a temporal judgment when a culprit is caught and is to be judged to death. First, the judge orders the ministers to sound the trumpet so that everyone may come and hear the sentence,