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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:DIVINE LOVE \nFrom “The Four Hundred Chapters of Love” by Maximus the Confessor3 \n◊◊◊ \nWhen through love the mind is ravished by divine knowledge…then\, \naccording to the divine Isaiah\, it comes in consternation to a realization of its \nown lowliness and says with conviction the words of the prophet: Woe is me for \nI am stricken at heart; because being a man having unclean lips\, I dwell in the \nmidst of a people with unclean lips and I have seen with my eyes the King\, the \nLord of hosts. The one who loves God cannot help but love also every man as \nhimself even though he is displeased by the passions of those who are not yet \npurified. Thus when he sees their conversion and amendment\, he rejoices with \nan unbounded and unspeakable joy. \nThe passionate soul is impure\, filled with thoughts of lust and hatred. The \none who sees a trace of hatred in his own heart through any fault at all toward \nany man whoever he may be makes himself completely foreign to the love for \nGod\, because love for God in no way admits of hatred for man. \n“The one who \nloves me\,” says the Lord\, \n“will keep my commandments” and “this is my \ncommandment\, that you love one another.” Therefore the one who does not love \nhis neighbor is not keeping the commandment\, and the one who does not keep \nthe commandment is not able to love the Lord… \nThe one who has acquired divine love in himself does not grow weary of \nclosely following after the Lord his God\, as the divine Jeremiah says; rather he \nendures nobly every reproachful hardship and outrage without thinking any evil \nof anyone. When you are insulted by someone or offended in any matter\, then \nbeware of angry thoughts\, lest by distress they sever you from charity and place \nyou in the region of hatred. Whenever you are suffering intensely from insult or \ndisgrace\, realize that this can be of great benefit to you\, for disgrace is God’s way \nof driving vainglory out of you. \nAs the memory of fire does not warm the body\, so faith without love does \nnot bring about the illumination of knowledge in the soul. As the light of the sun \nattracts the healthy eye\, so does the knowledge of God draw the pure mind to \nitself naturally through love… The soul is pure when it has been freed from the \npassions and rejoices unceasingly in divine love… For he recalls his former \nworldly life and different transgressions and the temptations bedeviling him \nfrom his youth\, and how the Lord delivered him from all these things and made \nhim pass from this life of passion to a divine life. And so with fear he receives \nlove as well\, ever thankful with deep humility to the benefactor and pilot of our \nlife. \n  \nMaximus the Confessor. Selected Writings. Trans. George C. Berthold. New York: Paulist Press\, 1985. 36-40.7 \n 
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