Alphonsus Liguori

Name: Sermons for all the Sundays in the year — SERMON XXIV. THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EASTER. - ON THE VALUE OF TIME
Author: Alphonsus Liguori

Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

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“Sermons for all the Sundays in the year — SERMON XXIV. THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EASTER. - ON THE VALUE OF TIME”, published in 1882, is a work by Alphonsus Liguori. It explores elements such as salvation, time and Bernardino.

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ At the hour of death, conscience will remind us of all the time which we have had to become saints, and which we have employed in multiplying our debts to God. It will remind us of all the calls and of all the graces which he has given us to make us love him, and which we have abused. At that awful moment we shall also see that the way of salvation is closed for ever. In the midst of these remorses, and of the torturing darkness of death, the dying sinner shall say: O fool that I have been! life misspent! lost years, in which I could have gained treasures of merits, and have become a saint! ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ You will see some persons spending four or five hours in play. If you ask them why they lose so much time, they answer: To amuse ourselves. Others remain half the day standing in the street, or looking out from a window. If you ask them what they are doing, they shall say in reply, that they are passing the time. And why says the same saint, do you lose this time? Why should you lose even a single hour, which the mercy of God gives you to weep for your sins, and to acquire the divine grace? ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ If any one had reason to fear that a trial should take place, on which his life depended, he certainly would not wait for the day of the trial, but would as soon as possible employ an advocate to plead his cause. And what do we do? We know for certain that we must one day be judged, and that on the result of that judgment our eternal, not our temporal, life depends. We also know that that day may be very near at hand; and still we lose our time, and, instead of adjusting our accounts, we go on daily multiplying the crimes which will merit for us the sentence of eternal death. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ But the time of this life is as precious as it is short; for, in every moment, if we spend it well, we can acquire treasures of merits for heaven; but, if we employ time badly, we may in each moment commit sin, and merit hell. I mean this day to show you how precious is every moment of the time which God gives us, not to lose it, and much less to commit sin, but to perform good works and to save our souls. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ In heaven there is no weeping; but, were the saints capable of sorrow, all their wailing should arise from the thought of having lost in this life the time in which they could have acquired greater glory, and from the conviction that this time shall never more be given to them. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ Bernardino of Sienna teaches that time is of as much value as God; because in every moment of time well spent the possession of God is merited. He adds that in every instant of this life a man may obtain the pardon of his sins, the grace of God, and the glory of Paradise. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ O time, despised by men during life, how much shall you be desired at the hour of death, and particularly in the other world! Time is a blessing which we enjoy only in this life; it is not enjoyed in the next ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ THERE is nothing shorter than time, but there is nothing more valuable. There is nothing shorter than time; because the past is no more, the future is uncertain, and the present is but a moment. This is what Jesus Christ meant when he said: "A little while, and now you shall not see me. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ God calls you to confess your sins, to restore ill-gotten goods, to be reconciled with your enemies. Obey his call to-day; for it may happen that on tomorrow time may be no more for you, or that God will call you no more. All our salvation depends on corresponding with the divine calls, and at the time that God calls us. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ If you find your soul in the state of sin, delay not your repentance nor your confession; do not put them off even till to-morrow; for, if you do not obey the voice of God calling you Today to confess your sins, death may this day overtake you in sin, and tomorrow there may be no hope of salvation for you. The devil regards the whole of our life as very short, and therefore he loses not a moment of time, but tempts us day and night. ”The devil is come down unto you having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ Since, then, the time which we have to remain on this earth is short, the Apostle tells those who weep, that they ought not to weep, because their sorrows shall soon pass away; and those who rejoice, not to fix their affections on their enjoyments, because they shall soon have an end. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ What you can do Today defer not till to-morrow; for on tomorrow you may be dead, and may be gone into another world, where you shall have no more time to do good, and where you shall only enjoy the reward of your virtues, or suffer the punishment due to your sins. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ The Lord gives us the remaining days of life, that we may compensate the time that has been badly spent. “Whilst we have time, let us work good." (Gal. vi. 10.) Let us not provoke the Lord to punish us by an unhappy death; and if, during the years that are passed, we have been foolish, and have offended him, let us now attend to the Apostle exhorting us to be wise for the future, and to redeem the time we have lost. "See, therefore, brethren, now you walk circumspectly, not as unwise, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil,... understanding what is the will of God. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ A deceased Benedictine nun appeared in glory to a certain person, and said that she was in heaven, and in the enjoyment of perfect happiness; but that, if she could desire anything, it would be to return to life, and to suffer affliction, in order to merit an increase of glory. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ He does not tell us to prepare ourselves when death approaches, but to be ready for his coming; because when we think least of death, the Son of Man shall come and demand an account of our whole life. In the confusion of death, it will be most difficult to adjust our accounts, so as to appear guiltless before the tribunal of Jesus Christ. Perhaps death may not come upon us for twenty or thirty years ”

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