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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE GREATEST \nOF ALL VIRTUES \nFrom a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny \n◊◊◊ \nKeep…O happy sinner\, keep carefully and watchfully this spirit of yours\, \nthis most fitting affection of humility and devotion by which you may always so \nthink of yourself in humility and of the Lord in goodness. There is nothing \ngreater than it among the gifts of the Holy Spirit\, nothing more precious in the \ntreasures of God\, nothing more holy among all the charisms\, nothing more \nhealth-giving in all the sacraments… This humility not only justifies sinners but \nalso perfects the just and brings their justice to fullness if they confess \nthemselves humble servants even when they have done all they were bidden. \nLet your sin be present to you always and\, according to the Wise Man’s \nadvice\, do not be without fear even for sin that has been forgiven. God’s \njudgments are uncertain and hidden; they are not rashly to be presumed upon\, \nfor we hold nothing more certain in that regard than that in God’s sight no man \nor woman alive shall be justified\, except insofar as they justify themselves to be \nsinners… \nMercy has welcomed you kindly\, received you with loving-kindness. Fear \nthe judgment\, lest the grace given you in your humility be taken away from you \nin your pride. You have chosen to be of little account… Remain in that frame of \nmind\, so that even if you are promoted you may be advanced to greater things \nstill. Always take the last place\, or at least desire it… Never let humility become \ndispleasing to you; through it you began to please and without it you will begin \nto displease however great the virtues by which you are distinguished… \nHumility is the greatest of all virtues\, although it does not know itself to \nbe a virtue. It is the root and seedbed\, the tinder and incentive\, it is the \nsummit and peak\, the custody and discipline of almost all the virtues. From it \nthey begin\, through it they make progress\, in it they are perfected\, by it they \nare preserved. It is humility that makes all the virtues what they are\, and if \nany one of them be lacking or less perfect it is humility that compensates for \nthe loss since it profits by the other’s absence.
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