miracle by taking only three of His disciples with Him and by driving the musicians and the multitude out of the house. Learn to sequester yourself from the noise and rabble of worldly thoughts if you desire to live for Christ. "Wisdom, says the sea, is not in me." (Job xxviii. 14.) By the sea, says St. Gregory, interpreting this passage, " is meant the world."
III. " Christ, taking her by the hand, cried out, saying: Maid, arise." (Luke viii. 54.) Thus He raises up sinners from their sins, holds them by the hand, and directs them to good works. " And He bade them to give her to eat," to show you that those who rise from a state of sin must receive the spiritual food of the Eucharist, to prevent them from relapsing. Take care, then, that you receive this food often, and in a proper manner, that you may live forever.
WEDNESDAY
Raising of the Widow's Son. — I.
I. "Jesus went into a city called Naim, and behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother." (Luke vii. 11.) This was a young man in the flower of youth; learn hence, that no age is secure against the shafts of death. Imagine that this young man addresses you in the language Of Ecclesiasticus: "Remember my judgment, for thine also shall be so; yesterday for me, and to-day for thee." (Ecclus. xxxviii. 22.) Examine what would become of you, were you to die this very day. This young man died to God in a spiritual sense sooner, than others who are older; for, as St. Jerome says, "Youth has many conflicts of the body to undergo."
