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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW ROAD \nFrom a sermon of St Caesarius of Arles4 \n◊◊◊ \nI beseech you\, beloved\, with God’s help let us celebrate these days\, \nsalutary for bodies and healing for the soul\, in so holy and spiritual a manner \nthat the observance of a holy Lent may lead to progress for us and not judgment. \nFor if we lead a careless life\, involving ourselves in too many occupations\, \nrefusing to observe chastity\, not applying ourselves to fasting and vigils and \nprayers\, neither reading Sacred Scripture ourselves nor willingly listen to others \nreading it\, the very remedies are changed into wounds for us. As a result of this \nwe shall have judgment\, where we could have had a remedy… \nFor this reason\, dearest brethren\, “Have no love for the world\, nor the \nthings the world affords\,” because “the world with its seductions is passing \naway”. What\, then\, remains in a man except what each one has stored up in the \ntreasury of his conscience for the salvation of his soul by reading or prayer or \nthe performance of good works? For miserable pleasure\, still more wretched \nlust and dissipation\, through a passing sweetness prepare eternal bitterness; \nbut abstinence\, vigils\, prayer and fasting lead to the delights of paradise through \nthe briefest hardships. The Truth does not lie when He says in the Gospel: \n“Straight and narrow is the road that leads to eternal life\, and how few there are \nthat find it!” Not for long is there rejoicing on the broad way\, and not for long is \nthere labor on the straight and narrow road. After brief sadness those who travel \nthe latter receive eternal life\, while those who travel the former\, after short joy\, \nsuffer endless punishment. \nFor this reason\, dearest brethren\, by fasting\, reading and prayer in these \nforty days we ought to store up for our souls provisions\, as it were\, for the whole \nyear. Although through the mercy of God you frequently and devoutly hear the \ndivine lessons throughout the entire year\, still during these days we ought to \nrest from the winds and the sea of this world by taking refuge\, as it were\, in the \nhaven of Lent\, and in the quiet of silence to receive the divine lessons in the \nreceptacle of our heart. Devoting ourselves to God out of love for eternal life\, \nduring these days let us with all solicitude strive to repair and compose in the \nlittle ship of our soul whatever throughout the year has been broken or \ndestroyed or damaged or ruined by many storms\, that is\, by the waves of sins. \nAnd since it is necessary for us to endure the storms and tempests of this world \nwhile we are still in this frail body\, as often as the enemy wills to lead us astray \nby means of the roughest storms or to deceive us by the most voluptuous \npleasures\, with God’s help may <the enemy> always find us prepared against \nhim. \nIf…you both willingly heed and strive faithfully to fulfill…the truths which \nwe are suggesting for the salvation of all by presuming on your obedience\, you \nwill celebrate Easter with joy and happily come to eternal life. May He Himself \ndeign to grant this\, who together with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and \nreigns for ever and ever. \n  \n4 St Caesarius of Arles\, Sermons\, vol.3\, The Fathers of the Church\, vol. 66\, Catholic University of America Press\, \nWashington DC\, 1973\, pg. 41.9 \n  \n  \n  \n 
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