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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:MY ALL IN ALL \nFrom a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny \n◊◊◊ \nNow\, my brethren\, what witness to Christ’s love does the joy of your \nhearts give you? I venture to judge\, and rightly as you will see\, that if you have \never loved Jesus alive or dead or risen from the dead\, your heart rejoices within \nyou. As the tidings of his resurrection resound and re-echo again and again \nthrough the Church you will say to yourselves: “They have told me that Jesus \nmy God is still alive. On hearing it my spirit\, which was asleep through \nweariness\, languishing through tepidity\, disheartened through timidity\, has \nrevived.” For the joyful voice of this happy message raises even from death \nthose buried deep in sin. Otherwise\, if Christ\, coming up from hell\, left them \nthere in the depths\, there would certainly be no hope for them; their fate would \nbe buried in forgetfulness. By this token you may clearly know that your soul \nlives again fully in Christ if it echoes this sentiment: “It is enough for me that \nJesus is still alive.” \nHow faithful and worthy of a friend of Jesus is that voice\, how pure that \nact of love which says: “It is enough for me that Jesus is still alive. If he lives\, I \nlive\, for my spirit acts through his. Yes\, he is my life\, my all in all. For what \ncan I lack if Jesus is still alive? Rather everything else may be taken from me\, \nnothing else matters to me so long as he lives. If he wishes then\, let him take no \naccount of me. It is enough for me that he still lives even if he only lives for \nhimself.” When the love of Christ so absorbs all our affections that\, unmindful \nand forgetful of ourselves\, we have no feeling for anything but Jesus Christ and \nwhat pertains to him\, then\, I say\, love has been made perfect in us. To one who \nso loves\, poverty is no burden\, no hurt is felt\, insults are to be laughed at\, \nmisfortune disdained\, and death considered as gain. In fact one does not think \nin terms of death knowing that death is a passage to life. And one can \nconfidently assert: “I will go and see him before I die.” \nAlthough\, my brethren\, we have not been endowed with such a great \npurity of conscience\, let us\, nevertheless\, go to see Jesus journeying to the \nmountain of heavenly Galilee\, where he awaits us. On the way our love will \nincrease\, and on our arrival\, at least\, it will be perfected. On the way\, the road\, at \nfirst hard and difficult\, will grow easier\, and the strength of the weak will \nincrease. The flesh of Christ is our food for the journey\, his Spirit our means of \nconveyance. He himself is the food\, he himself is the chariot and charioteer of \nIsrael. When you arrive\, all the goods\, not of Egypt but of heaven\, will be yours. \nThere\, in the best place in the kingdom\, at the bidding of Christ you will take \nyour rest. “Come to me all you that labor and are burdened with hunger\, and I \nwill refresh you. Come\, you blessed of my Father\, possess the kingdom \nprepared for you.” May he who calls you lead you to where he lives and reigns \nwith the Father and the Holy Spirit\, through endless ages.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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