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world; and I shall meet Thee, not with fear or terror, but with joy and consolation, confident in Thy promise that at the general judgment I shall be among Thy elect on Thy right hand in the valley of Josaphat, and shall hear the joyful invitation: “Come, ye blessed of My Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”[1] Come, My children, enter with Me into eternal joys! Ah! grant me that great grace. My dear brethren, “make straight the way of the Lord,” and it shall be done as you wish. Amen.
The same sermon and introduction may serve for the fourth Sunday of Advent, Text: “Prepare ye the way of the Lord.”—Luke. iii. 4.
- ↑ Venite benedicti Patris mei, possidete paratum vobis regnum a constitutione mundi.—Matt. xxv. 34.
