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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: gone astray, and called together his friends and neighbours to a
banquet, because that it was found. `Likewise,' saith the
Saviour, `joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,
more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no
repentance.'
"And, in sooth, even the chief of the disciples, Peter, the Rock
of the Faith, in the very season of the Saviour's Passion,
failing for a little while in his stewardship, that he might
understand the worthlessness and misery of human frailty, fell
under the guilt of denial. Then he straightway remembered the
Lord's words, and went out and wept bitterly, and with those hot
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