Showing posts with label purity of heart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label purity of heart. Show all posts

So let us lift our gaze upward! And with great humility and confidence, let us ask the Spirit to enable us each day to grow in the holiness that will make us living stones in the temple which he is even now raising up in the midst of our world. If we are to be true forces of unity, let us be the first to seek inner reconciliation through penance. Let us forgive the wrongs we have suffered and put aside all anger and contention. Let us be the first to demonstrate the humility and purity of heart which are required to approach the splendor of God’s truth. In fidelity to the deposit of faith entrusted to the Apostles (cf. 1 Tim 6:20), let us be joyful witnesses of the transforming power of the Gospel!

(Benedict XVI, Homily, Votive Mass for the Universal Church, Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York, 19 April 2008)

4 Quoniam ad te orabo, Domine,
mane exaudies vocem meam;
mane astabo tibi et exspectabo.
5 Quoniam non Deus volens iniquitatem tu es;
neque habitabit iuxta te malignus,
6 neque permanebunt iniusti ante oculos tuos.


As I pray to you in the morning,
Lord, listen to my voice;
in the morning I will stand before you and await you.
You are not a God who loves evil.
The wicked cannot stay near you,
the unjust cannot remain in your presence.

(Psalm 5:40-6)