Think how much this good resolve, the acceptance of this Grace, is going to cost. And yet, I am not in despair… I do not think any efforts of my own will can end once and for all this craving for limited liabilities, this fatal reservation. Only God can. I have good faith and hope He will.
He does in us. The process of doing it will appear to me to be the daily and hourly repeated exercises of my own will in renouncing this attitude, especially each morning, for it grows all over me like a new shell each night.
Failures will be forgiven; it is acquiescence that is fatal, the permitted, regularised presence of an area in ourselves which we still claim for our own. We may never, this side of death, drive the invader out of our territory, but we must be in the Resistance, not in the Vichy government. And this, so far as I can yet see, must be begun again every day. Our morning prayer should be that in the Imitation: Da hodie perfecte incipere — grant me to make an unflawed beginning today, for I have done nothing yet.
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Skip to content. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Prior to his death an expanded version of this shorter work was published in They Asked for a Paper. These days you can located best in The Weight of Glory. Jude on the Hill Church in London. As the previous sermon was, the essay version is also available in God in the Dock.
At the second location it was the inaugural message in a series that continued with four more lay preachers. All those messages where then published the same year by St.
It is the shortest of all his sermons and was given at chapel at Magdalene College. According to Greg M. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy there were at least four other times Lewis preached but the transcripts never survived. It was given at the same church on April 4, As Anderson noted there are two possible pieces that could be connected with this sermon.
The final two times that we know Lewis preached were at Mansfield College and the Quarry Church according to Anderson. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind and it is, in fact, the merriest kind which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously—no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner—no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses.
If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat —the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden. But while I do these things, there is, so to speak, a voice inside me that urges caution. It tells me to be careful, to keep my head, not to go too far, not to burn my boats.
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