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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Charles Borromeo
DESCRIPTION:THE LEGACY OF \nST CHARLES BORROMEO \nFrom a homily by Fr Ronald Knox2 \n◊◊◊ \nWhen our Lord’s apostles came to look back upon that terrible night in the \nLake of Galilee\, when they strained every nerve against the tempest while their \nMaster lay sleeping in the boat\, they found in it an allegory of their own \nsituation\, as they launched out the frail bark of his Church upon waves so \ntroubled\, with prospects so uncertain. And in every age the Church has looked \nback to that picture and taken comfort from it in times of adversity. [With great \nconfidence]\, the Church of God\, which is Peter’s boat\, has breasted the waves all \nthrough her troubled history. It is not upon the captain’s judgment or the pilot’s \nexperience\, not human wisdom or human prudence\, that she depends for her \nsafe voyage: she rests secure in the presence of her inviolable passenger. \nYet we should do ill if we grudged recognition and gratitude to those \nservants of his who at various times have steered our course for us through \ndifficult waters\, and especially to the saints of the Counter-Reformation — that \nremarkable group of saints whom God raised up at the time of Europe’s \napostasy\, by whose influence\, humanly speaking\, the faith survived that terrible \nordeal. And not the least\, nor the least prominent\, of these is [St. Charles \nBorromeo]\, who ruled the Church of Milan in the latter part of the sixteenth \ncentury… \nWhatever be the rights and wrongs of all the controversies we hear about \nthe medieval Church\, this at least is clear\, that in the days of the Council of Trent \nits organization needed reform. And reform needs more than mere legislation to \ndecree it; it needs administration to execute it. That is St. Charles’s \ncharacteristic legacy to the Church: it was the influence of his example\, in great \nmeasure\, that molded her organization on the new model which Trent had \ndecreed. The bishop has got to be the center of everything in his diocese\, and the \nclergy of the diocese are to be his clergy — a family of which he is to be the father\, \na guild of which he is to be the master. \nSee how fond St. Charles was of synods: the whole of his comparatively \nshort episcopate is a long record of the synods he gathered amongst his clergy. \nSee how enthusiastic he is for the seminary idea; the bishop\, henceforth\, is not \nmerely to ordain people\, he is to know whom he is ordaining. And above all what \nwas characteristic of St. Charles was the institute which he left behind him — a \nbody of secular priests\, putting themselves at the disposal of the bishop as \nabsolutely as the religious puts himself at the disposal of his superior. Yes\, there \nis much about St. Charles’s life which is more exciting\, and much which is more \nattractive\, than all this; his boundless generosity to the poor\, the relentless \nmortification that regulated his busy\, competent life. But what makes him stand \nout among the saints more than either is his intense devotion even to the most \nuninspiring details of diocesan routine.
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