ACC ~ Philippians 2 v15b

YOU SHINE AS LIGHTS IN THE WORLD. CHRYSOSTOM: Do you do something good but grumble? Why? Is there any constraint upon you? “I know,” he says, “that many of your neighbors influence you to complain,” for this is what he hints at when he says “in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation.” But the way to excite wonder is to suffer no such thing even under provocation. For the stars too shine in darkness yet suffer no diminution of their own beauty, but instead they shine all the brighter. HOMILY ON PHILIPPIANS 9.2.12-16.

DISPELLING THE DARKNESS. CHROMATIUS OF AQUILEIA: With the very light of truth we are to illumine those who are caught in the shadows of error, dispelling the night of ignorance. … If we do not do this, it will be apparent that our infidelity has, as it were, concealed and overshadowed the benefits of this needful light, to our own perdition as well as that of others. TRACTATE 19.3.2-3.

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