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Ordinary Time · Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time · Year B

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1

We Do Not Lose Heart

The New Jerusalem (Bamberg Apocalypse, f. 55r), Unknown illuminator, Reichenau school
The New Jerusalem (Bamberg Apocalypse, f. 55r), Unknown illuminator, Reichenau school, c. 1000-1020Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (Msc.Bibl.140)
The city drawn as a ring of white towers with the Lamb standing inside it, and the angel leading John up to the wall to look.If the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.Unknown illuminator, Reichenau schoolA Reichenau painter working for the emperor Henry II, who drew the city as a diagram you could walk into.Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (Msc.Bibl.140)The Staatsbibliothek Bamberg.Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (Msc.Bibl.140)

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"So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day." (2 Corinthians 4:16)

Paul says the same Spirit of faith that made him speak sustains him under affliction, because the God who raised Jesus will raise believers with him. He does not lose heart while the visible body wastes away, trusting that a slight momentary trouble prepares an eternal weight of glory and an everlasting dwelling from God.

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