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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:CHRIST’S PATIENT ENDURANCE \nOF SUFFERING \nFrom the spiritual writings of John Ruusbroec \n◊◊◊ \nHe began to suffer at the time of his birth\, for he was born in poverty and in \ncold. He was circumcised and so shed his blood. He was forced to flee to a strange \nland… He suffered hunger and thirst\, disgrace and contempt\, and…slanderous \nwords and deeds… He fasted\, kept vigils\, and was tempted by the devil. He was \nsubject to everyone. He went from country to country and from city to city with \nmuch labor and zeal in order to preach the Good News. \nFinally he was arrested by…enemies even though he was a friend to them. \nHe was betrayed\, mocked\, and insulted; scourged and beaten; and condemned on \nthe basis of false testimony. In great pain he carried his cross to the highest place \non earth and was there stripped naked. No man or woman has ever seen so \nbeautiful a body so cruelly treated. He suffered disgrace\, pain\, and cold before all \nthe world\, for he was naked and it was cold\, with a sharp wind cutting into his \nwounds. He was nailed to the wood of the cross with blunt nails and was so \nstretched out that his veins were ruptured. He was raised up on the cross\, which \nwas then dropped down into its hole with such force that his wounds began \nbleeding. His head was crowned with thorns. His ears heard the…shouting\, \n“Crucify him! Crucify him!” and many other abusive words. \nHis eyes saw…obstinacy and malice…and the misery of his mother\, and his \neyes lost their power of sight in the bitterness of pain and death. His nose smelled \nthe foulness which those standing by spat out of their mouths into his face. His \nmouth and his sense of taste were drenched with vinegar and gall. Every sensitive \npart of his body was pervaded with the pain of the scourging. Thus was Christ our \nBridegroom wounded unto death\, abandoned by God and all creatures; he hung \ndying on the cross like a piece of wood for which no one cared except Mary his \nmother\, who could do nothing to help him. \nChrist also suffered spiritually\, in his soul\, because of the obdurate \nwillfulness of…those who put him to death\, for however many signs and wonders \nthey saw\, they persisted in their evil ways… He also suffered because of the distress \nand misery of his mother and his disciples\, who were sorely afflicted. He suffered \nbecause his death would be of no avail for so many persons and because many \nwould be ungrateful and even swear false oaths in order to ridicule and revile him \nwho had died out of love for us. His human nature and his lower reason suffered \nbecause God withdrew from them the influx of his gifts and consolation and left \nthem to themselves in such distress. For this reason\, Christ said in complaint\, “My \nGod\, my God\, why have you forsaken me?” But our Lover was silent about all his \nsufferings and cried out to his Father\, “Father\, forgive them\, for they do not know \nwhat they are doing”. Christ was heard by his Father because of his reverence… \nThese\, then\, were interior virtues of Christ: humility\, charity\, and the patient \nendurance of suffering. Christ practiced them throughout his life\, died with them\, \nand so redeemed us through his righteousness…
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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