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Excerpt from Sermons on Our Lord and His Blessed Mother, and on the Saints, Vol. 2: Panegyrics and Moral Discourses, Adapted to All the Sundays and Holydays of the Year
If you wishto test the truth of this, then think of the holy guardian angels, and of the ofi'ice to which they allow themselves to be appointed. O my God! I am often struck with wonder ment to think that such excellent beings as even the lowest of the angels are, that such great, beautiful, and mighty princes of heaven, many of whom in the beginning were, before they reached the place of their eternal happiness, ashamed to attend on God when He should become man, and were therefore cast out of heaven into hell as rebels - my God, I think, how is it possible for these blessed courtiers of the Almighty to deign to defend and guard such mean creatures as we are! But what do I say! Exclaims St. Bernard; to defend and guard? Rather to wait upon and attend us poor mortals. They are not ashamed in their own exalted persons to take that lowly ofiice on themselves for years and years, from the first moment of life to the moment of death, and to stand day and night, in all places, at all times, by the side of a poor mortal, even of the meanest of men, of a poor beggar or swine-herd'
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