For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for Thou art with me. (Ps. xxii. 4.)
The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear Him: and in them that hope in His mercy. (Ps. cxlvi. 11.)
The Lord is good to them that hope in Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God. (Lam. iii. 25, 26.)
Necessity of Hope
BE YOU humbled, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in the time of visitation: Casting all your care upon Him, for He hath care of you. (1 Peter v. 6, 7.)
Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord. (Ps. xxvi. 14.)
CHARITY
The Greatness of Charity
THE Pharisees hearing that He had silenced the Sadducees, came together: And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting Him: Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets. (Matt. xxii. 34-40.)
Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames. Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: If a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing. (Cant. viii. 6, 7.)
