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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE HOLY SPIRIT BESTOWS \nTHE UNDERSTANDING OF FAITH \nFrom a treatise by William of St Thierry4 \n◊◊◊ \nIf your whole being hesitates before the all too profound mysteries \nof faith\, say without fear\, not in disagreement but out of a desire to obey\, \n“How can this be?” Let your question be a prayer\, let it be love\, devotion\, \nhumble desire. Do not let it look haughtily at the divine majesty\, but seek \nfor salvation in the means of salvation which the God of our deliverance \nprovides. Then the Angel of great Counsel will answer you: “When the \nCounsellor comes whom I shall send to you from the Father\, …he will \nbear witness to me and will teach you all things: all truth will come to you \nfrom the Spirit of truth.” “Who\, for example\, knows one’s own innermost \nself but one’s own spirit within him? Similarly\, no one knows what lies at \nthe depths of God but the Spirit of God.” \nHasten\, then\, to come into communion with the Holy Spirit: and he \nis invoked only when he is present. When called upon\, he comes; he \narrives in the abundance of divine blessings. It is he who is the swift- \nflowing river which makes glad the city of God. At his coming\, if he finds \nyou humble and free from anxiety\, reflecting on the word of God\, he will \nrest upon you and reveal to you what God hides from the wise and prudent \nof this world. You will then be enlightened by all the things which \nWisdom\, when on earth\, could have said to the disciples\, but which they \ncould not bear before the coming of the Spirit of truth who would lead \nthem into all truth. \nTo receive and learn this truth\, it is useless to expect from the mouth \nof another human person what one was not able to receive or learn from \nthe lips of the Truth himself. For as this Truth declared\, “God is Spirit”; \nand just as those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth\, \nso those who desire to know him must seek only in the Holy Spirit to \nunderstand faith and the meaning of this pure and unalloyed truth. \nIn the darkness and ignorance of this life the Holy Spirit is himself\, \nfor the poor in spirit\, the light which lightens\, the love which attracts\, the \ngentleness which charms\, the love of one who loves\, the piety of one who \ngives himself without reserve. It is he who from one conviction to another\, \nreveals the justice of God to those who believe; he gives grace for grace \nand enlightenment for the faith which “comes from hearing. \n  \n4 THE MIRROR OF FAITH; PL 180\, 384-D.9 \n  \n 
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