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The Hour of the Bridegroom

The Bridegroom will return to collect his Bride. Am I ready? Have I cleansed my robes and kept myself unspotted by the world with its worldly “wisdom,” its bitter intimacies, its disobedience and rebellion, its worries and cares over temporal things? When he returns, will he find faith on the Earth?

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