Just for Today, July 3

Christ was also in this world despised by men, and in His greatest necessity forsaken by His acquaintance and friends, in the midst of reproaches. Christ would suffer and be despised; and dost thou dare to complain of anyone?

-Bk. II, ch. i.
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Thy lot on earth was open scorn,
So let it, Lord, be mine.
To men, the lowest place is shame;
But since to it Thy meekness came,
Thou makest it divine.

-Poems.
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Adapted from Just For Today(©1943 Burns & Oates)
Nihil Obstat: Reginaldus Phillips, S.T.L.,Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: Edwardus Myers, Vic. Cap.