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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE HAVEN OF LENT \nBy St Caesarius of Arles \n◊◊◊ \nBehold\, dearest brethren\, through the mercy of God the season of Lent is \nupon us. Therefore I beseech you\, beloved\, with God’s help let us celebrate these \ndays\, salutary for bodies and healing for the soul\, in so holy and spiritual a \nmanner that the observance of a holy Lent may lead to progress for us and not \njudgment. For if we lead a careless life\, involving ourselves in too many \noccupations\, not applying ourselves to fasting and vigils and prayers\, neither \nreading Sacred Scripture ourselves nor willingly listening to others reading it\, \nthe very remedies are changed into wounds for us. As a result of this we shall \nhave judgment\, where we could have had a remedy. \nFor this reason I exhort you\, dearest brethren\, to rise rather early for \nvigils\, and above all to come to Terce\, Sext and None. Let no one withdraw \nhimself from the holy Office unless either infirmity or public service or at least \ngreat necessity keeps him occupied. Let it not be enough for you that you hear \nthe divine lessons in church\, but read them yourselves in your room or look for \nsomeone else to read them and willingly listen to them when they do. \nRemember the thought of our Lord\, brethren\, when he says: “If he were to gain \nthe whole world and destroy himself in the process\, what can a man offer in \nexchange for his very self?” Finally\, if you cannot do more\, at least labor as much \non behalf of your soul as you desire to labor for the sake of your body. \nFor this reason\, dearest brethren\, “Have no love for the world\, nor for the \nthings the world affords\,” because “the world with its seductions is passing \naway.” What\, then\, remains in a person except what each one has stored up in \nthe treasury of his conscience for the salvation of his soul by reading or prayer or \nthe performance of good works? For miserable pleasure and dissipation \nthrough a passing sweetness prepare eternal bitterness; but abstinence\, vigils\, \nprayer and fasting lead to the delights of paradise through the briefest \nhardships. The Truth does not lie when He says in the Gospel: “Straight and \nnarrow is the road that leads to life\, and how few there are who find it!” \nFor this reason\, dearest brethren\, by fasting\, reading\, and prayer in these \nforty days we ought to store up for our souls provisions\, as it were\, for the whole \nyear. Although through the mercy of God you frequently and devoutly hear the \ndivine lessons throughout the entire year\, still during these days we ought to \nrest from the winds and the sea of this world by taking refuge\, as it were\, in the \nhaven of Lent\, and in the quiet of silence to receive the divine lessons in the \nreceptacle of the heart. Devoting ourselves to God out of love for eternal life\, \nduring these days let us with all solicitude strive to repair and compose in the \nlittle ship of our soul whatever through the year has been broken or destroyed or \ndamaged by many storms\, that is\, by the waves of sin. And since it is necessary \nfor us to endure the storms and tempests of the world while we are still in this \nfrail body\, as often as the enemy wills to lead us astray by means of the roughest \nstorms\, with God’s help may he always find us prepared against him. \n 
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