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SUMMARY:Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:A Reading on St Bernard and His Entrance to Monastic Life 2\nFrom the Vita Prima by William of Saint-Thierry \nWhen the time came for Bernard to fulfill his vow and achieve his plans\, with\nhis brothers and spiritual children he took leave of his father’s dwelling…At that\ntime Citeaux was still a novelty and just a little flock living under venerable Stephen\,\ntheir abbot. They were beginning to grow dejected because of the lack of vocations\,\nand their hopes for future numbers were fading…But now\, all of a sudden\, God\nvisited them and made them joyful again. It was so unexpected\, so sudden. It was\nas if their house had received this reply from the Holy Spirit: Shout for joy\, you\nbarren woman who bore no children! Break into cries of joy and gladness\, you\nwho were never in labor! For the sons of the forsaken one are more in number\nthan the sons of the wedded one\, and afterward you will see your children’s\nchildren unto many generations. \nIn the year 1113 from the Lord’s Incarnation\, and thirteen years from the\nfounding of Citeaux\, Bernard\, the servant of God\, who was about twenty-two years\nold\, entered Citeaux with more than thirty companions and submitted himself to\nthe sweet yoke of Christ under Abbot Stephen…He had the intention of dying from\nthe hearts and memory of mankind\, with the hope of disappearing like a lost vase. \nBut God had other ideas and was making him ready as a chosen vessel\, not\nonly to strengthen and expand the monastic order but to carry his name before\nkings and Gentiles to the ends of the earth. Of course he did not apply this teaching\nto himself or even think about it; rather he had in his heart the need to be constant\nin following his vocation\, so that he constantly said in his heart and even often on\nhis lips\, “Bernard\, Bernard\, what have you come for?”… \nFrom the first day of his conversion right up to the present time\, he was\nknown to have only one thing in his thoughts\, namely\, to have a mother’s love for\nevery soul. Indeed\, there was a sort of conflict in his heart between his holy desires\nand his holy humility. At one moment he confesses that he is dejected that his\nefforts cannot show any results\, but afterward his burning ardor makes him forget\nhimself\, and he admits that he finds no other consolation than the salvation of\nmany souls. In the end\, charity gives birth to confidence\, yet humility keeps it in\nplace.\nAnd so it happened that on one occasion he rose early for Vigils. Then after\nVigils there was a long interval before Lauds in the morning\, and he went outside.\nHe walked around close by and was praying to God that his prayers and those of his\nbrothers might be acceptable\, for he was\, as I have said\, filled with the desire for\nspiritual fruitfulness. All of a sudden\, while he was standing there\, he closed his\neyes in prayer and saw on all sides a great multitude of men in diverse clothing and\ndifferent walks of life coming down from the hills close by into the valley below; so\nmany were they that the valley could not contain them. What this meant is clear to\neveryone. The man of God was so encouraged by this wonderful vision that he\nexhorted his brothers never to despair of God’s mercy. \n2 William of Saint-Thierry. The First Life of Bernard of Clairvaux. CF 76. Trans. Hilary Costello\, OCSO.\nCollegeville\, MN: Cistercian Publications\, 2015. 20-22\, 29-30.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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SUMMARY:Jim Finley
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