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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Anselm
DESCRIPTION:THE ENTOMBMENT AND RESURRECTION \nFrom the meditations of St Anselm6 ◊◊◊ \n… Leave not Mary Magdalene\, but court her society\, help her to prepare the spices\, and come with her betimes to the Lord’s sepulchre. O\, may you merit to see with the eye of the soul\, as she did by bodily vision\, now an angel sitting on the stone which he had rolled away from the door of the monument; and now again\, within the monument\, two\, one at the head\, and one at the feet\, preaching the Resurrection and its glories; and yet again Jesus Himself\, refreshing the sad and tearful Magdalene with eyes so gentle\, and saying with voice so sweet\, ‘Mary.’ At this word all the cataracts of her soul are broken loose\, and tears are distilled from her very marrow\, and sighs and sobs from her heart’s inmost recess. ‘Mary.’ O happy thou! What were thy thoughts\, thy heart\, thy soul\, when\, in answer to this word\, flinging thyself at His Feet\, and greeting Him in return\, thou sayest ‘Rabboni!’ What were the emotions\, what the yearnings\, what the ardours of thy soul\, when thou sayest ‘Rabboni’? Tears prevent more\, emotion chokes thy voice\, and excess of love absorbs every sense of mind and body. \nBut why\, my dear Jesus\, dost Thou drive me\, loving Thee as I do\, from Thy sacred and so longed-for Feet? ‘Touch Me not\,’ Thou sayest. Why\, O Lord\, why? Why may I not touch those all-desired Feet of Thine\, that were burrowed through with nails and drenched with Blood? Why may I not touch them\, and caress them with a thousand kisses? What! Is He less my Friend now that He is more glorious? See\, I will not let Thee go; I will not leave Thee; I will not spare my tears; my heart shall break with sighs and sobs unless I touch Thee. But He says\, ‘Touch Me not.’ This blessing shall not be refused thee\, though it be delayed; go only\, and tell My brethren that I have risen again. She ran quickly\, wishing to return quickly; she returns\, but not alone; there are other women with her. And Jesus goes to meet them\, and with gentlest greeting raises them from their dejection and consoles their sorrow. And see; what was deferred before is granted now. For ‘they came up\, and took hold of His Feet\, and worshipped Him’. Linger here\, virgin\, as long as you can\, and neither let sleep break in upon your joys\, nor any exterior distraction interrupt it \n\n\n6 St Anselm. Book of Meditations and Prayers. Trans. M.R. London: Burns and Oates\, 1872. 217-220. \n\n\n\n\n12 \n\n\n \n 
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