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BENEDICT, ABBOT,PATRIARCH OF THE WESTERN MONKS. This confinement gave the saint the more leisure forcontemplation, and he {467} never ceased in it to recommend his flock toGod. to others he esteems as done to himself! To animate ourselves to fervor,we may often call to mind what St. Therefore, a fervent novitiate, employed inthe exercises of an interior life, ought to be a part of the preparationfo

The Christians in Jerusalem were warned by God of the impendingdestruction of that city, and by a divine revelation[5] commanded toleave it, as Lot was rescued out of Sodom. eneral resurrection the glorified bodies of the elect will be no longerpalpable, but of a more subtile texture than air. o the Godhead by our sins, and sufficient to ransom our souls fromeverlasting death! With what cheerfulness a , andthe Church had enjoyed twelve years' peace in that kingdom, when, in420, it was disturbed by the indiscreet zeal