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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:ON PREACHING CHRIST \nBy St Albert the Great \n◊◊◊ \nJust as the body is borne about on legs\, so Christ is borne about by \npreachers. Professional preachers have the gospel in their heart through love and \nunderstanding\, in their lips through their preaching and doctrine\, and in their \nhand through the accomplishment of their work. \nGregory says: “The preacher’s tongue works to no avail unless there is the \ngrace of redemption at work within.” Hence\, the office of preaching must not be \nentrusted to those who lead a shady life and perform works of darkness. The \npreacher must put off the old association with sin. The word of the Lord must \nproceed maturely and orderly\, as befits the word of God and as it proceeds from \nthe mouth of God. \nThus preaching requires instruction\, and study\, and meditation. Just as \nthe eagle has a more sublime flight\, so must the preacher soar by means of \ncontemplation. For a sermon which proceeds from a preacher’s innermost being \nwarms and gladdens the heart like wine and is often brought back to the mind \nand pondered. \nThe things to be preached are those above nature which our intelligence \ncan only understand through faith. Especially to be preached are those things \nthat must be believed\, which works are to be avoided and which to be \naccomplished. Preaching should summon sinners to repentance\, strengthen the \nweak\, warn of the punishment for sinners\, and promise glory. Preachers must \noffer not their own teaching of truth but the teaching of the one who sent them. \nThey must lead an exemplary life as well. \nPreachers who are sent\, going out from their comfort into the field to sow \nthe word of God\, will find the Church of believers to be united with themselves in \na spiritual marriage. Just as the sight of open fields will impel a horse to run\, \nwhich is one of its skills\, so the sight of a place filled with people eager to listen \nwill inspire a preacher to preach. Preachers will thus proceed to insure their own \nspiritual growth\, that by contemplating they might imbibe the truth which by \npreaching they give forth; they are converted from an external work\, which they \ndirected toward their neighbor\, to familiar conversation with God in the secret of \ntheir own conscience. \nThe scribe is the Holy Spirit\, and the preacher’s tongue is the pen by which \nthe Holy Spirit speaks. And just as we do not praise the pen for fine writing but \nrather the writer\, so the preacher should not be praised for good preaching but \nthe Holy Spirit. \nThe word of God is to be preached to everyone without respect to persons. \nIt must be taught in a human way and inserted into the human heart by the finger \nof God. It should be taught to the unlearned by the examples of corporal things \nthrough the bodily examples with which they are acquainted and by which they \ncan in some way understand heavenly things.
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