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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE ENCOURAGMENT \nOF THE SAINTS \nBy Bishop John Vaughan1 \n◊◊◊ \nWe may study learned treatises of ascetical theology; we may know the \ntheory of sanctity…but such knowledge will never affect us as does the \ncontemplation of it when reduced to practice\, and exhibited in the actual life of \nsome great servant of God. To lay down the broad principles of holiness is one \nthing\, but to see these principles carried out and acted upon in real life is \nsomething far more inspiring. \nTo know what is just\, and right\, and loyal\, and generous is no doubt \nimportant\, but such knowledge does not stir us like the concrete example of \nsome fervent soul whom we can actually watch\, step by step\, battling with evil \nin many a hand-to-hand encounter\, and struggling and striving to keep a \nfoothold on the narrow path of virtue amid the fiercest winds and storms of \ntemptation. \nThe very difficulties appeal to us; the falls and the occasional weaknesses \nreveal character as well as the difficulties of the way; the courage and \ndetermination to surmount them at any cost\, the stern refusal to allow obstacles \nor even the most serious disasters to discourage or check the advance of the \nonward course infuse fresh courage and hope even into ourselves. \nAnd what adds immensely to our zest is the fact that\, in contemplating \nthe saints\, we are contemplating men and women like ourselves. Their nature \nis the same as ours\, and their innate strength no greater than our own. If they \nwrestled successfully with evil\, if they beat down every rebellious passion and \npassed in safety through fire and water\, it was not because they were formed13 \nfrom a different clay\, but because they had learned the value of prayer and had \ntrusted in God and not in themselves. For the rest\, they were human as we are.
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