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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:THE DEGREES OF LOVE \nBy St John of the Cross \n◊◊◊ \nThe soul is right in daring to say: “may the vision of Your beauty be my \ndeath“\, since she knows that at the instant she sees this beauty she will be \ncarried away by it\, and absorbed in this very beauty\, and transformed in this \nsame beauty\, and made beautiful like this beauty itself\, and enriched and \nprovided for like this very beauty. \nDavid declares\, consequently\, that the death of the saints is precious in \nthe sight of the Lord. This would not be true if they did not participate in His \nvery grandeurs\, for in the sight of God nothing is precious but what God in \nHimself is. \nAccordingly\, the soul does not fear death when she loves\, rather she \ndesires it. Yet sinners are always fearful of death. They foresee that death will \ntake everything away and bring them all evils. As David says\, the death of \nsinners is very evil. And hence\, as the Wise Man says\, the remembrance of it is \nbitter. Since sinners love the life of this world intensely and have little love for \nthat of the other\, they have an immense fear of death. \nThe soul that loves God lives more in the next life than in this\, for the soul \nlives where it loves more than where it gives life\, and thus has but little esteem \nfor this temporal life. She says then\, “may the vision of Your beauty be my \ndeath. For the sickness of love is not cured except by your presence and image.” \nThe reason love sickness has no other remedy than the presence and the \nimage of the Beloved is that\, since this sickness differs from others\, its medicine \nalso differs. In other sicknesses\, following sound philosophy\, contraries are \ncured by contraries\, but love is incurable except by what is in accord with love. \nThe reason for this is that love of God is the soul’s health\, and the soul \ndoes not have full health until loves is complete. Sickness is nothing but a want \nof health\, and when the soul has not even a single degree of love\, she is dead. \nbut when she possesses some degrees of love of God\, no matter how few\, she is \nthen alive\, yet very weak and infirm because of her little love. In the measure \nthat love increases she will be healthier\, and when love is perfect she will have \nfull health. \nThe soul does well to call imperfect love “sickness.” for just as the sick is \ntoo weak for work\, so is the soul\, feeble in love\, too weak to practice heroic \nvirtue. It is also noteworthy that the soul who feels the sickness of love\, a lack of \nlove\, shows that she has some love\, because she is aware of what she lacks \nthrough what she has. The soul who does not feel this sickness shows that she \neither has no love or is perfect in love.
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