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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:PREPARING OURSELVES \nTO MEET THE LORD \nBy Blessed Guerric of Igny1 \n◊◊◊ \n“BE PREPARED now Israel to meet the Lord\, for he is coming”. And you \ntoo my dear brethren be prepared as well; for the Son of Man will come when \nyou least expect him. He is coming\, nothing is more certain than that; but when \nhe will arrive—nothing is less certain. Right up to the last moment we will not \nknow the actual time the Father in his almighty power has appointed. Even the \nangels who stand before him have not been given the privilege of knowing that \nday or hour. Our last day most certainly must come to us; but it is very uncertain \nwhen it will come\, where we will be or whence it will come. All we can say is that \nit is knocking at the door for the old\, and lies in wait for the young. \nO that they would keep careful guard over themselves who see death so \nready to enter\, nay rather who see it already entering. For has it not already \nentered\, at least to some extent\, a body grown senile and decrepit Yet in many \nwho are already half-dead one can see worldly desires still alive. The limbs are \ngrowing cold and the fire of avarice still burns within; life is coming to its end \nand ambition still strains ahead. Because our youth or health perhaps appear to \npromise some more years ahead of us death is not often before our eyes\, but this \nis just the very reason why\, if we are wise\, it should be in our thoughts\, lest that \nday come like a thief in the night and find us unprepared and unready. It is lying \nin wait for us and we should fear it all the more for its being hidden\, for we can \nneither see it nor get warning of it. \nThere is therefore only one thing that makes us safe: never to think that \nwe are safe. For fear makes a careful man always prepared until at length fear \ncan give way to security and not security to fear. The wise man says: “I shall9 \nkeep myself from my iniquity\, seeing that I am powerless in respect to my \ndeath.” He knows that the just man\, if he is surprised by death\, will be at rest? \nIn fact that man triumphs over death who was not overcome by iniquity during \nhis life.
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