Do not pay more attention to your temporary residence in this world, than to your place of permanent abode.
III. When the man was cured, " he went away into his own house, magnifying God." It is one of the proper effects of spiritual health to praise God, and to give Him thanks for benefits received. Take care that you always magnify God, when you retire from the sacrament of Penance freed from the deadly palsy of sin, and say with royal David, " I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall be always in my mouth." (Ps. xxxiii. 2.)
FRIDAY.
Cure of the Withered Hand.
I. " And it came to pass also, on another Sabbath, that He entered into the synagogue, and taught, and there was a man, whose right hand was withered." (Luke vi. 6.) Christ took advantage of every occasion to bring souls to His Father; hence, on the Sabbath-days He frequented the synagogue, in order that he might instruct the multitude, which on those occasions was collected together. He found in the synagogue a man, whose right hand was withered. " There are many," says an eminent spiritual writer, "who in the Church of God, have their left hands ready for any evil action, whilst their right hands are withered and incapable of performing any good action." " Their right hand, is the right hand of iniquity." (Ps. cxliii. 8.) Examine your conscience on this subject.
II. " Then He saith to the man, stretch forth thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health, like as the other." (Matt. xii. 13.) Christ could easily
