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Mon 25 XI 85 

Syr 2.1-6  

My child, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for trials.

Be sincere of heart and steadfast,

and do not be impetuous in time of adversity.

Cling to him, do not leave him,

that you may prosper in your last days.

Accept whatever happens to you; in periods of humiliation be patient.

For in fire gold is tested,

and the chosen, in the crucible of humiliation.

Trust in God, and he will help you;

make your ways straight and hope in him.

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Sun 24 XI 85 

KOH 8.2 

Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God. 

A year ago I asked You, Father to take me forever.

I promised before Your altar that I would always be Yours.

You made a covenant with me, and I committed myself to subordinate everything to Your will, Your orders.

I was wondering the word "covenant". You never spoke to me like that  Lord. After all, the covenant is a bilateral commitment - so You give the promise of victories ...

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Thu 21 XI 1985 

Gen 8.20-22; 9.1 

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though a every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

“As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

day and night

will never cease.”

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth".