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SUMMARY:Easter Weekday
DESCRIPTION:EVERYONE GIVING BIRTH WILL SUFFER\nFrom the “Homilies on the Prophetic Burdens of Isaiah” by St Aelred of Rievaulx5\n◊◊◊\nOh brothers\, there is no pain as of one giving birth. But there is a physical\nbirth\, a spiritual birth\, and a punitive birth. And certainly\, a woman is sad when \nshe is in labor\, because her hour has come. Pain takes hold of her members; death\,\nher eyes; and fear\, her conscience. She does not know how it will turn out. \nA spiritual birth takes place when the holy ones give birth to spiritual\nchildren by instruction and care. One such holy person said\, My little children\, \nwith whom I am again in labor. And this birth is not without pain. For such a\nperson must rejoice with those rejoicing\, weep with those weeping\, be weak with\nthe weak\, burn with the scandalized\, and much more. It is also a spiritual birth\nwhen the barren and unfruitful soul conceives by fear of the Lord. Turned toward\nthe Lord\, such a soul gives birth to the beginnings of good works. And what pain\nlies in this birth when the flesh resists the spirit and habit resists the will! One\nmoment\, the mind desires good works\, and the next it does not; one moment it\nfears\, and the next it trusts; one moment\, desire for the good impels it\, and the\nnext\, the pleasure of evil pulls it back! \nA harmful birth takes place when a person conceives pain and gives birth\nto iniquity\, when it conceives from a desire to acquire and gives birth by carrying\nout that desire. This is why the Lord said in the gospel\, Woe to you who are \npregnant or nursing! Woe indeed to those conceiving and giving birth in this\nway. Even if now they exult when they do evil and rejoice in wicked things\, as \nthough giving birth they will suffer pain when death draws near. For just as a\nwoman who conceives in pleasure suffers great pain when she is in labor\, so too\nthe soul\, corrupted by pleasures and vices\, is crushed by sadness and pain when\nthe wages of corruption begin to appear at death. When the soul’s belated\nrepentance is turned back on itself\, it will begin to feel what is written: Walk in \nthe light of your fire and in the flame that you lit for yourselves. \nWe can call a birth punitive when someone dies in a condition of\npunishment as though giving birth. The dead receive the punishment they\nconceived by sinning\, as though giving birth to a most unhappy progeny. How\nmuch more happily does a person conceive repentance for sins from the fear of\nGod and give birth to conversion of life! This birth\, although not without pain\,\nprepares joy in tranquility of conscience\, because when she gives birth to the \nchild\, she does not remember her distress anymore on account of her joy\, and\nwhoever sows tearfully will reap joyfully\, and Blessed are those who mourn\, for \nthey will be consoled. Therefore\, everyone who abandoned the faith – whether\novercome by torture during persecution or corrupted by vice during peacetime –\nas though giving birth will suffer pain\, either by profitably repenting or unhappily\ndying. \n5 St Aelred of Rievaulx. Homilies on the Prophetic Burdens of Isaiah. CF 83. Trans.\nLewis White. Collegeville\, MN: Cistercian Publications\, 2018. 86-87.
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