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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:GOD WILL HELP YOU \nFrom the Fourth Vision of St Hildegard of Bingen3 \n◊◊◊ \nDearest children\, open your eyes and ears… The choirs of angels sing\, \n“You are just\, O Lord!”\, because God’s justice has no flaw in it; for God delivered \nMan not by power but by mercy\, when He sent His Son into the world to redeem \nhim… But you\, when you consider good and evil\, are standing\, as it were\, where \ntwo roads branch off. If you despise the darkness of evil and want to see Him \nWhose creature you are\, and Whom you acknowledged in holy baptism where \nthe old sin of Adam was nullified in you; and if you say\, “ I want to fly from the \nDevil and his works and follow the true God and His precepts”; then think how \nyou have been taught to turn away from evil and do good\, and how the Heavenly \nFather did not spare His Only-Begotten but sent Him for your deliverance; and \npray to God to help you. And He\, hearing you\, will say\, “These eyes are pleasing \nto me!” And if you then cast off weariness and run courageously in God’s \ncommands\, He will always hear the cry of your prayers… \nBut if you have fallen into sin\, quickly rise by confession and pure \npenitence\, before death lays claim to you. For your Father wants you to cry out\, \nweep and ask for help so as not to remain in the squalor of sin. For if you have \nbeen wounded\, you seek a physician lest you die. Does not God often send \npeople troubles\, so that they will more intently invoke Him? But you\, O human\, \nsay “I cannot do good works!” I say you can. And you say “How?” And I say\, \n“By thought and action.” And you answer\, “I lack decision.” And I answer\, \n“Learn to fight against yourself!” And you say\, “I cannot fight against myself \nunless God helps me.” Hear then how you can fight against yourself. When evil \nrises up in you and you do not know how to get rid of it\, then\, touched by…grace\, \nwhich reaches you in the paths of your inner vision\, at once cry out\, pray\, \nconfess and weep so that God will help you\, and remove evil from you\, and grant \nyou strength in good. For this good is yours by the knowledge that lets you \nunderstand God by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit… So let the faithful person \nrecognize his pain and seek a physician before he falls dead. \n  \n3 Hildegard of Bingen. Scivias. Trans. Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop. New York: Paulist Press\, 1990. 125-128.7 \n  \n 
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