The christian vocation (english)

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A homily given on 2 December 1961, the first Sunday in Advent

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Rom 13:11-12

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1 John 2:16: Concupiscentia carnis, concupiscentia oculorum et superbia vitae Matt 5:8 5 Dan 2:33 4

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Rom 7:21-24 Rom 7:25 8 Gen 3:5 9 Prov 11:2 7

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Ps 24:1-2 Tit 3:5 12 Ps 32:5 13 Sir 18:12 14 Ps 31:10 15 Ps 58:11 16 Ps 33:8 17 Ps 116:2 18 Ps 24:7 19 Ps 108:21 20 Sir 35:26 21 Matt 5:7 22 Luke 6:36 11

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Luke 7:11-17 Ex 22:27 25 Heb 4:16 26 St Ambrose, Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam, 7 (PL 15,1540) 24

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Paedagogus, 3,1,1,5 (PG 8,556) Rev 3:20 29 Cf Ps 126:1 28

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2 Cor 4:10 Gaudium cum pace, emendationem vitae, spatium verae poenitentiae, gratiam et consolationem Sancti Spiritus, perseverantiam in bonis operibus, tribuat nobis omnipotens et misericors Dominus. Amen. (Roman Breviary, Prayer before Mass) 32 1 Cor 9:22 31

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Gen 1:26 John 14:6: Ego sum veritas

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Matt 5:16

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Luke 21:28

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