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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:HIS CROSS IS MY GLORY \nFrom a homily by William of St-Thierry6 \n◊◊◊ \nIt is to my crucified one that I turn. His cross is my glory: its mark is on my \nbrow; it gives joy to my mind\, direction to my life\, love even for death itself. May \nthey not despise me for this\, O Lord\, they who are worthy to behold you\, seated \nas you are on your throne\, the exaltation of your godhead\, filling all the earth \nwith your majesty. The mysteries of your dealings with men here and now fill \nthe temple of every mind\, great and small. May your holy angels have the \nhonour that is their due in heaven: but may they sometimes also share their \ngrace and favours with us here on earth. For he loves us to make progress in our \nlives: and their blessed perfection is sweet to him. \nAs the Apostle says: God’s many-splendoured wisdom has been \nmanifested to principalities and powers in heaven through his dealings with the \nChurch. Wherefore may they pardon us\, Lord\, even if your love should \nsometimes so captivate us that we desire to see\, with them\, what with them we \nalready love: with a full heart we felicitate them\, as they behold what we are not \nyet worthy to behold. \nMay they blissfully contemplate your divine majesty residing in your \neternal wisdom: those things to be\, seen before this our mortal wayfaring and \nafter it\, everything that is\, past and future\, enfolding it all within his eternal \npresent: it reaches in its power and strength from one extremity to another. But \nour temporal passage\, belonging to your dealings with men as a whole\, he has \nstrewn with his charity\, disposing all things in sweetness\, for the sake of the \ndaughters of Jerusalem\, the devout but as yet infirm souls. They who have not \nthus far their elevated gaze fixed on contemplating the sublime would fain \nundergo hardship for your servants and be transformed so as to belong among \ntheir fellows. Among these\, O Lord\, may my spirit some day be taught to adore \nyou\, spirit as you are\, in spirit and in truth\, flesh no longer desiring what is \ncontrary to the spirit\, nor yet holding it back. \nBut now that for the moment you are kept from boldly taking possession \nof what is to be yours\, make a proper disposition of what is his\, with what grace \nand harmony you best can\, as befits him\, the true owner. I have not yet risen \nabove the rough-hewn figures of my earthly imagination: but may you indulge \nand be gracious to my feeble spirit\, as it expresses its true nature in letting its \nfancy play on your more humble creatures. Behold! the meager enfolding the \nnewly born\, the holy child being adored; the footprints of the crucified one being \nlicked\, as he hangs on the cross; his feet being held and kissed now that he is \nrisen; the hand\, put in the place where the nails went; and then the exclamation \n– My Lord and my God!
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