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SUMMARY:Reading: Lenten Weekday
DESCRIPTION:On Despising the Things of This World and\nOn the Hope of Heavenly Things 3\nA sermon by Alan of Lille \n…The hope of earthly goods leads only to promises for the future; it\ndestroys our joys before they arrive. [Earthly hope] corrupts the mind by too\nmuch anxiety\, for fear trips up hope and mortgages the joys to come; it stretches\ndesire into infinity. O man\, you depend on earthly things; you rely upon what is\nuncertain; you lean upon a reed cane which is easily broken. Do not therefore\ntrust in that which is fragile and slippery; it quickly sinks away and destroys you.\nSet your mind on the clouds of adversity rather than on the clear skies of\nprosperity. If you set your hope on earthly prosperity… not only will you fail to\nfind there what you hope for\, but you will discover instead the tinder of sin and of\nruin\, a snare for your soul and the leavening of justice. \nRather direct your hope towards tribulations\, which although they present\nan external bitterness\, yet – for those who stand firm – they bring forth in the\nspirit the sweetness of the hope of heaven. Nor may he who has not been pricked\nby the bitterness of tribulation enjoy the sweet fruit of patience. Tribulation is\nthe furnace which refines gold\, the file which burnishes iron\, the flail by which\nthe grain is separated from the chaff. In this warfare of tribulation\, patience is\nexercised\, fortitude does battle\, constancy is strengthened\, hope is summoned\nheavenwards… \nO how happy is that heavenly hope\, which fear does not overpower\, in\nwhich fear is not engendered by falsehood\, where desire does not dream\nreason invite us to believe and hope in this. What fear is able to weaken the\nhuman mind\, if heavenly hope pleads for it before God? What harm will the\nthundering of tyrants\, the precipices of fortune\, the weaknesses of the body\, the\ngroanings of poverty do to the man whose mind is fortified with heavenly hope?\nThis is the hope which governs the assemblies [of men]\, and directs their actions.\nThis it is which finds its height in charity\, that we may direct our actions towards\nGod; this it is which expands its breadth in charity\, that we may extend charity to\nour enemy. This it is which stretches out its length in charity\, that we may\npersevere in charity to the very end of life. \nBetween this [hope] and fear\, as between two millstones\, the Christian\nshould be ground smooth and fine. Whence it is said in Deuteronomy: ‘You shall\nnot accept the upper or the lower millstone as a pledge’. The upper millstone is\nhope\, the lower\, fear. The one must not be accepted without the other. Anyone\nwho hopes and does not fear is neglectful; anyone who fears and does not hope is\ndowncast. \n3 Alan of Lille. The Art of Preaching. CF 23. Trans. Gillian R. Evans. Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian\nPublications\, Inc.\, 1981. 58-61.
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