Mirror of Sinners on the Contempt of the World

...etc. Also, it can be understood still more broadly: "Flee from Babylon," i.e., from this sinful world, not by alienation of the body, but of the state, as all the saints of God did, who, although they lived in the world among men, did not, however, care for the world, but entirely despised it and delighted in Christ. So we also must do: flee, namely, from this world to a penitential state, as was said yesterday. "Do," namely, "penance, etc.," so that you may decline and evade intolerable, eternal, and horrible pains, and may possess the kingdom of heaven, stable and joyful, with the saints and the elect, through their merits and prayers. May Jesus Christ, the Son of Mary, who with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns for ages of ages, deign to grant us this. Amen.

Explicit Mirror of Sinners concerning the contempt of the world, composed by the blessed Bernardine of the Order of Friars Minor.

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