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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:ROOTED AND GROUNDED \nIN LOVE \nFrom “Meditations and Prayers” by Evelyn Underhill \n◊◊◊ \nAdoration\, as it more deeply possesses us\, inevitably leads on to self- \noffering: for every advance in prayer is really an advance in love. “I ask not for \nthy gifts but for thyself\,” says the Divine Voice to Thomas à Kempis… That\, of \ncourse\, is real intercession; which is gravely misunderstood by us\, if we think of \nit mainly in terms of asking God to grant particular needs and desires. Such \nsecret intercessory prayer ought to penetrate and accompany all our active \nwork\, if it is really to be turned to the purpose of God. It is the supreme \nexpression of the spiritual life on earth: moving from God to man\, through us\, \nbecause we have ceased to be self-centered units\, but are woven into the great \nfabric of praying souls\, the “mystical body” through which the work of Christ on \nearth goes on being done. \nThose who deal much with souls soon come to know something about the \nstrange spiritual currents which are at work under the surface of life\, and the \nextent in which charity can work on supernatural levels for supernatural ends. \nBut if you are to do that\, the one thing that matters is that you should care \nsupremely about it; care in fact\, so much that you do not mind how much you \nsuffer for it. We cannot help anyone until we do care\, for it is only by love that \nspirit penetrates spirit. \nReal saints do feel and bear the weight of the sins and pains of the world. \nIt is the human soul’s greatest privilege that we can thus accept redemptive \nsuffering for one another – and they do. St Theresa says that if anyone claiming \nto be united to God is always in a state of peaceful beatitude\, she simply does not \nbelieve in their union with God. Such a union\, to her mind\, involves great \nsorrow for the sin and pain of the world; a sense of identity not only with God \nbut also with all other souls\, and a great longing to redeem and heal. That is real \nsupernatural charity. \nIt is a call to love and save not the nice but the nasty; not the lovable but \nthe unlovely\, the hard\, the narrow\, and the embittered\, and the tiresome\, who \nare so much worse. To love irrespective of merit or opinion or personal \npreference; to love even those who offend our taste. If you are to love your \npeople thus\, translating your love\, as you must\, into unremitting intercessory \nwork\, and avoid being swamped by the great ocean of suffering\, sin and need to \nwhich you are sent\, once again this will only be done by maintaining and feeding \nthe temper of adoration and trustful adherence. This is the heart of the life of \nprayer; and only in so far as we work from this center can we safely dare to touch \nother souls and seek to affect them. For such intercession is a sacrificial job; and \nsacrificial jobs need the support of a stronger inner life if they are to be carried \nthrough. They are rooted and grounded in love.
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