Let false hope perish; Angels: Day 136

Let false hope perish; Angels: Day 136 December 4, 2016

angels_gregory_the_great_1Continuing his meditation on Job’s cursing the day he was born and the nighhe was  conceived, St. Gregory the Great sees the curse as a renunciation of everything Satan offers to us.

This holy man ( Job) mourned, in his own sorrows, the condition of the whole human race. He saw nothing that was in any way particular to himself in his own particular suffering. It’s very appropriate for him to bring back to mind the original cause of sin, and to soften the pain inflicted on him by thinking about its justice.

He can look at humankind, and see where we fell from, and where we have fallen to, and exclaim, “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, ‘A man-child is conceived’” ( Job 3:3).

It’s as if he were saying, in so many words, “Let the hope perish that the apostate angel held out to me—who, when he disguised himself as day, was shin- ing with the promise of a divine nature, but then showed himself as night and brought a cloud over the light of our immortality. Let our old enemy perish, who showed us the light of promises, but gave us the darkness of sin—who presented himself as day by his wheedling, but led us into a night of utter darkness by closing our hearts with blindness.” –St. Gregory the Great,  Moralia in Job, 4.6

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .

Do I renounce Satan and all his works every day?

CLOSING PRAYER

Lord, I renounce Satan and all his evil works, all his empty promises,  and all his worldly magnificence.

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