Up with us then at last, for the Scripture arouseth us, saying: Now is the hour for us to rise from sleep.1 Let us open our eyes to the divine light, and let us hear with attentive ears the warning that the divine voice crieth daily to us: Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.2 And again: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.3 And what doth he say? Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.4 Run while ye have the light of life, lest the darkness of death overtake you.5
1Rom xiii, 11
2 Ps xciv, 8
3 Matt xi, 15; Apoc ii, 7
4 Ps xxxiii, 12
5 John xii, 35