How fatal is the
disease of sin! It covers our soul with a hideous leprosy, that leads her to
death eternal. To cleanse us therefrom, the Redeemer has prepared for us, says
Saint Bernard, a fountain of mercy, a bath of salvation in the sacrament of penance.
Every soul making use of it full of repentance and
resolved to amend, were she stained far more than even Judas and Lucifer, will
come forth therefrom as pure as the heavenly rays. This is a powerful motive
for us to esteem and love this sacred fountain, in which Christ’s tears and
blood wash away even our most enormous faults, and dispose us to enjoy perfect
health.
“Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their
bruises” (Ps. 146.3).
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