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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Columban
DESCRIPTION:TRUE DISCRETION \nFrom “The Rule of St Columban for Monks”7 \n◊◊◊ \nHow necessary discretion is for monks is shown by the mistake of many\, \nand indicated by the downfall of some\, who beginning without discretion and \npassing their time without a sobering knowledge\, have been unable to complete \na praiseworthy life; since\, just as error overtakes those who proceed without a \npath\, so for those who live without discretion intemperance is at hand\, and this \nis always the opposite of virtues which are placed in the mean between each \nextreme. Therefore we must pray God continually that He would bestow the \nlight of true discretion to illumine this way\, surrounded on every side by the \nworld’s thickest darkness\, so that His true worshippers may be able to cross this \ndarkness without error to Himself. \nSo discretion has got its name from discerning\, for the reason that it \ndiscerns in us between good and evil\, and also between the moderate and the \ncomplete. For from the beginning either class has been divided like light and \ndarkness\, that is\, good and evil\, after evil began through the devil’s agency to \nexist by the corruption of good\, but through God’s agency Who first illumines \nand then divides. \nWhat things then are good? Doubtless those which are untouched\, and \nhave remained in the undefiled state of their creation; which God alone created \nand prepared\, according to the Apostle\, that we should walk in them; which are \nthe good works in which in Christ Jesus we were created\, namely goodness\, \ninnocence\, righteousness\, justice\, truth\, pity\, love\, saving peace\, spiritual joy\, \ntogether with the fruit of the Spirit – all these with their fruits are good. Since \nthis is so\, the good must be firmly held by those that have God’s help\, which is \never to be prayed for in prosperity and in adversity\, lest either in prosperity we \nbe lifted up to pride\, or in adversity be cast down to despair… We must always \nrestrain ourselves from either danger\, that is\, from all excess by a splendid \ntemperance and true discretion\, which cleaves to Christian lowliness and opens \nthe way of perfection to Christ’s true soldiers\, namely by ever discerning rightly \nin doubtful cases. \nThus between the little and the excessive there is a reasonable measure in \nthe midst\, which ever recalls us from every superfluity on either side\, and in \nevery case provides what is universally fixed by human need\, and spurns the \nunreasonable demand of superfluous desire. And this measure of true \ndiscretion\, weighing all our actions in the scales of justice\, in no way allows us to \nerr from what is just\, or to suffer a mistake\, if we ever follow straight behind it as \nour leader. For while we must always restrain ourselves from either side\, \naccording to that saying: “Keep yourselves from the right and from the left\,” we \nmust ever proceed straight forward by discretion\, that is\, by the light of God\, \nwhile very often we say and sing the victorious psalmist’s verse: “My God\, \nenlighten my darkness\, since in You I am rescued from temptation. For \ntemptation is the life of humans on earth.”
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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