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SUMMARY:Easter Weekday
DESCRIPTION:THE LIGHT OF THE LORD’S MERCIES\nFrom a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux 5\n◊◊◊\nAll of you know what is good\, the way on which to proceed\, and how you\nought to proceed along it. But you do not have a single will. For in all the\nexercises of this way and this life\, some not only walk but also run\, or rather fly;\nso that to them their vigils seem brief\, their foods sweet\, their clothing soft\, and\ntheir labors not only bearable but even appealing. Others\, however\, are not like\nthis. Instead with withered hearts and rebellious dispositions\, scarcely are they\ndragged to these exercises\, scarcely are they compelled by fear of hell. Wretched\nand woebegone\, they share in our tribulation but not in our consolation. Is the\nhand of the Lord shortened so that he cannot give to everyone when he opens\nhis hand and fills every living creature with his blessing? What then is the\nreason? \nClearly it is this\, that they do not see Christ when he is taken up from\nthem; in other words\, they do not ponder how he left them orphans\, that they\nare pilgrims and strangers on earth\, that as long as they are still held in the\nfrightful prison of the body\, they cannot be with Christ. Further\, if people of this\ntype have remained under a burden for a long time\, they are overwhelmed and\nsink down\, or else they are in a sort of hell\, so that they never breathe fully in\nthe light of the Lord’s mercies and in the Spirit’s freedom which alone makes\nour yoke easy and our burden light. \nThe source of such a pernicious lukewarmness is that their inclination\,\nthat is\, their will\, has not yet been purified. Gravely diverted and allured by their\nown craving\, they do not choose the good as they know it. They are fond of little\nearthly consolations for their flesh\, whether in word\, or in sign\, or in deed\, or in\nanything else. If they sometimes take a break from these things\, they do not\nwholly break with them. Hence their inclinations are rarely directed toward\nGod\, and their compunction is not constant\, but intermittent. Now a soul\nsubject to these distractions cannot be satisfied with the Lord’s visitations. The\nmore it is emptied of the distractions\, the more fully will it be satisfied by the\nvisitations. If it is greatly emptied\, it will be greatly satisfied; if it is barely\nemptied\, it will be barely satisfied. Surely if you examine further\, one can never\nbe mixed with the other for all eternity. When the oil did not meet with an empty\nvessel\, it had to stop flowing. New wine is put only in new wineskins so that both\nmay be preserved. So too spirit and flesh\, fire and lukewarmness\, do not abide\nin the same domicile\, especially since lukewarmness is wont to provoke the Lord\nhimself to vomit. \n5 Sermons for the Summer Season – Bernard of Clairvaux – CF53 – Cistercian Publications – pg 39 – Kalamazoo\, MI –\n1991.
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