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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:NOW IS THE TIME \nOF SALVATION \nFrom a sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx \n◊◊◊ \nShake yourself from the dust\, rouse yourself\, sit up\, O Jerusalem. Break \nthe chains off your neck captive daughter of Zion. Behold how sweetly\, how \naffectionately the heavenly spouse desires to reconcile the church to himself. \nThe loving father exhorts his daughter to salvation\, her who was prostrate in the \ndust for a long time. Therefore she is admonished by the prophet to rise from the \ndust\, break her chains\, go out from captivity. \nDust is human frailty when no virtue has been strengthened\, Dust is also \ntemporary wealth which lightly passes away and flies as though from the face of \nthe wind. Wretched human beings seek and do not find blessedness in this dust. \nIt takes away our eyesight\, because the cupidity of temporary wealth blinds our \nminds… We cannot rise while we are heavy with dust. Sins weigh down a soul; \ntemporary desires also weigh us down. Those who are weighed down are \noverwhelmed. Those who are burdened try in vain to rise up… Therefore\, Shake \nyourself from the dust\, Jerusalem; rouse yourself and sit up. We must sit\, not \nupright through pride\, not prostrating through ruin\, according to the saying of \nDavid: Beside the rivers of Babylon\, there we sat and wept. Certainly beside the \ntransitory and temporary things of this world\, not mixed up with them but \ntrampling them under foot\, we must sit repenting and weeping for all our sins. \nIn the first creation\, the human was made free\, but afterwards he sold \nhimself to the devil. The devil’s money with which he buys humans is sin… The \ndevil deceived humankind by promising what he did not pay\, saying\, You shall \nbe as gods\, knowing good and evil. The human obeyed; he ate the forbidden \nfruit\, and he received no other recompense except sin. And so he was sold for \nnothing. After the human surrendered\, the devil…put chains on his neck. \nChains are sins\, and the unfortunate sinner adds sin to sin… That is why Isaiah \nsays\, Woe to you who drag iniquity with ropes of vanity\, and drag sin like the \nchain of a cart. These are the ropes with which sinners shall be bound in the \nend… \nBreak the chains off your neck\, captive daughter of Zion. Break them by \nrepentance\, destroy them by making satisfaction. Shake your neck from the \ndevil’s yoke and submit yourself to the yoke of Christ\, whose yoke is light and \nburden sweet. Escape from the prison. The price has been given for you. The \nenemy cannot hold you back any longer\, if you are willing to escape. Destroy the \nrope that trails behind you\, lest the devil have the means to draw you… \nAs the Lord would say\, “You had not merited that I should redeem you\, \nbecause you have sold yourself to the devil gratis and for nothing\, and yet I shall \nredeem you\, not with money\, because the money of the whole world cannot \nredeem you\, but rather with the price of my blood…” You are that bride \nredeemed by the blood of the Lamb. You are those lying in the dust\, to whom it \nis said\, Rise up! You are those captives who are ordered to escape. Behold now is \nthe time of salvation. \nTherefore so that we might quickly and easily obtain pardon and find \nmercy\, let us seek God more attentively and carefully in this sacred fasting \nthrough true contrition and through pure confession and worthy satisfaction.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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