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It\u2019s the forty fifth anniversary of C.S.Lewis\u2019 death today. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his famous sermon, The Weight of Glory.<\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations\u2013these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit\u2013immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously\u2013no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinners\u2013no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor 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. <\/span><\/p>\n


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