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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Gertrude the Great
DESCRIPTION:TO BE ONE WITH GOD \nFrom “The Spiritual Exercises” by St Gertrude the Great7 \n◊◊◊ \nO love\, the fruition of you is that worthiest coupling of your Word and the \nsoul which is brought about by perfect union with God. To use you is to become \nintertwined in God. To enjoy you is to be one with God. You are that peace which \nsurpasses all understanding and you are the road by which one comes to the \ninner chamber. \nOh\, if only it happened to me\, too\, miserable as I am\, to repose for a \nmoment under your dearest cloak of cherishing-love so that my heart might be \nemboldened by one consolatory utterance of your living Word\, or that my soul \nmight hear this good and pleasant word from your mouth: ‘I am your salvation; \nbehold\, now the bedchamber of my heart is open to you.’ \nWhy\, then\, O love so unwavering\, have you deeply loved someone so foul\, \nso ugly\, if not to make her beautiful in you? Your loving-kind charity attracts \nand allures me… \nLet me not be confounded in my expectation but grant me to find rest for \nmy soul in you. I have found nothing more desirable\, I have judged nothing \nmore lovable\, I have wished for nothing more dear than to be held tight\, O love\, \nin your embraces\, to rest under the wings of my Jesus\, and to dwell in the \ntabernacle of divine charity. \nO love\, O radiant noonday\, I would die a thousand times to be at rest in \nyou. If only you would bend to me your face of such beautiful cherishing-love… \nOh\, if I were granted to come exceedingly close to you so that I might now \nfind myself not only next to you but within you. Then\, through you\, sun of \njustice\, flowers of all the virtues might arise in me\, who am dust and ashes. With \nyou as a husband\, my Lord\, such fecundity might enter my soul that the \nrenowned offspring of total perfection would be born in me. Then\, having been \nsnatched from the valley of this misery\, I might be able to glory in you forever in \nthe presence of your desirable face; for you\, mirror without spot\, have not \nscorned to be\, in truth\, coupled with a sinner like me.
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