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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:LET US REND \nOUR HEARTS \nFrom a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux \n◊◊◊ \nIf you grieve for your sin or your neighbor’s\, you do well\, and this sadness \nleads to salvation. If you rejoice at the gifts of grace\, this is a holy joy and a true \njoy in the Holy spirit. You must rejoice in the love of Christ with your brothers\, \nin their successes and grieve with them in adversity\, as it is written: Rejoice with \nthose who rejoice\, weep with those who weep. \nThis does not mean that we should value lightly the physical turning. As \nwe know\, it is no small support for the spiritual. That is why when the Lord had \nsaid “with all your heart” here\, he immediately added “with fasting”\, for that is \nof the body. Yet I would have you warned\, my brothers\, that that means not only \nabstaining from food\, but from all fleshly lusts and all bodily pleasures; indeed \nyou must fast from vices far more than from food. But there is a bread from \nwhich I do not wish you to fast lest you faint on the way; if you do not know what \nit is\, I am speaking of the bread of tears… It demands mourning of us by way of \nrepentance for our former way of life; it demands weeping with desire for future \nbeatitude. You do not have sufficient cravings for the joys to come if you do not \nbeg for them every day with tears; if your soul does not refuse comfort until they \ncome\, then you know too little of them. \nLet the Spirit rend your heart with his sword\, which is the Word of God; \nlet him rend it and speedily shatter it into many fragments. There is no way to \nturn to the Lord with all your heart except your heart be rent. Listen to one \nwhom God found to be after his own heart. My heart is ready\, O God\, my heart \nis ready\, he says – ready for both adversity and prosperity\, ready for what is low \nand what is lofty; ready for whatever you command. Who is faithful as David in \nhis going out and coming in? He used to say of sinners\, Their heart is curdled \nlike milk\, but I have meditated on your law. This is the reason for hardness of \nheart and obstinacy of mind\, that someone does not meditate on the law of the \nLord but on his own will. \nLet us rend our hearts\, dearly beloved\, but keep our garments whole. Our \ngarments are our virtues; love is a good garment\, obedience is a good garment. \nHappy is the one who cares for these garments that he may not walk naked. \nHappy are those whose sins are covered; love covers a multitude of sins. Let us \nrend our hearts…that we may keep our garments whole\, as was our Savior’s \ntunic. The rending of the heart not only keeps the garment whole\, but also \nmakes it long and of many colors\, like the coat the holy patriarch Joseph gave \nthe son whom he loved more than the others. From this comes perseverance in \nvirtue\, from this the many colored unity of a beautiful way of life. \nWe may also take this rending of the heart in another way; if the heart is \nwicked it may be rent by confession; if hard\, by compassion. Is not an ulcer rent \nso that the diseased matter may flow out? Is not the heart rent to overflow in \ncompassion? Both rendings are expedient\, that the poison of sin may not be \nhidden in the heart\, and we may not shut off our compassion from our \nneighbor’s need\, that we may receive mercy from Our Lord Jesus Christ\, who is \nover all\, blessed forever.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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