October 13
Companions of the Way (Morning)Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous.
THE angel of righteousness (says the Shepherd of Hermas) is delicate and modest, and meek and quiet: Take from thyself grief, for it is the sister of doubt and ill-temper: Grief is more evil than all the spirits, and is most dreadful to the servants of God, and beyond all spirits destroyeth man: For, as when good news has come to anyone in grief, straightway he forgeteth his former grief, and no longer attendeth to anything except the good news which he hath heard, so do ye, also! having received a renewal of your spirit through the beholding of these good things: Put on therefore gladness that hath always favour before God, and is acceptable unto Him, and delight thyself in it; for every man that is glad doeth the things that are good, and thinketh good thoughts, despising grief.
The Shepherd of Hermas quoted in Marius the Epicurean
THE SPIRIT OF JOY