Many, it is true, may rejoice at the celebration of this feast; but I am much afraid that it is less on account of the feast, than through vanity.
[St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, was born in that city about the year 296, and died A.D. 373. Forty-six years of his official life he spent in banishment in defending the Nicene Creed.
The best edition of his life and writings is that by Montfaucon, 3 vols, folio. Paris, 1698.]
The Son of God has taken upon Himself our poverty
and miseries, in order that we may participate in His
riches. His sufferings will one day render us impassible,
and His death will make us immortal.
We should find our joy in His tears, our resurrection in His tomb, our sanctification in His baptism, in accordance with what He says in the Gospel: " I sanctify myself in order that they also may be sanctified in truth."
There is not a phase in the life of our Saviour, which does not refer to Calvary. The Good Master was born in the stable only to die on the Cross; His life, which I should study continually, would show me all the riches of His love; I should see therein all the profound mysteries of His incarnation and redemption; I should discover what I have cost; I should appreciate the beauty and goodness of Jesus, and I shall then cry out, " O happy fault which has procured us such a Redeemer!" O felix culpa, qua tantum ac talem meruit habere salvatorem.
[Louis de Grenada was born in the year 1505, in the city of Grenada, Spain. He took the habit of St. Dominic, and by his writings proved himself to be one of the most illustrious of his order.
This saintly religious died in the year 1588. His writings have been constantly quoted by St. Charles Borromeo, in his instructions to his
