Gradual of Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria
The text of the Gradual
Philippians 1:8-9, 10, 11
For God is my witness, how I long after you in the bowels of Jesus Christ. And this I pray, that your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and in all understanding. ℣. That you may approve the better things, that you may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Jesus Christ.
Haydock
Verse 9. That your charity, &c. It is worthy of remark, that S. Paul does not beg that the Philippians may enjoy temporal blessings, but that they may be rewarded with an increase of spiritual favours; (Cal.) and as he remarks in the succeeding verses, that they may be filled with the fruits of justice.