,,Therefore, beloved, do not show indifference to your life on earth, because whether some sadness troubles you, or worldly cares, or irrational passions, here, in the church, they are all put to flight, they scatter, they are extinguished. On the contrary, at gatherings in the marketplace, at theaters, and in other places outside the church, we gather many cares, sadnesses, and spiritual weaknesses, with which we return to our homes. If you go to church continuously, you surely cast off the evils you received outside of it. But if you distance yourself from the church and leave, you will lose anyway even the goods you acquired from the Divine Scriptures, because, through gatherings and conversations outside the church, your spiritual wealth disappears little by little. And that this is the truth, leaving from here, take note of those who were absent from church today, and you will find how much difference there is between your desire and the sadness of others.[...]
And just as he who stands always upon a rock laughs at the waves, so is he who continually participates in gatherings and drinks from the divine words, as if finding himself upon the stone of the right judgment of things, and he will not be mastered by anything human, because he has placed himself above the assault of worldly things. For, having borne great fruit and spiritual improvement, not only from counsel, but also from prayer, and from the fatherly blessing, and from the gathering of the Church, and from the love of the brethren, and from countless other things, he thus departs, bringing boundless goods into his home.
Therefore, take note of how much blessing you enjoy today and how much loss those who did not come will suffer! For you will depart from church after having received the reward of the martyrs, while they, besides being deprived of this great gain, will also suffer another loss, gathering the many rubbish of cares for their useless preoccupations."
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