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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:OUR FIRST PARENTS \nFrom a sermon by Isaac of Stella \n◊◊◊ \nThe common wounds of Adam and his posterity\, are disorders that come \nto our nature from its origins\, born at our beginning and burgeoning as we grow. \nSuch is our condition thanks to “the Amorite that begot” us and “the Hittite that \nbore us” and forsook us. Truly we are “the seed of Canaan\, and not of Judah.” \nBorn of such stock there was “no water to wash us\, no salt to harden us\, none \nwould wrap us in swaddling-clothes\, our navel-string was left uncut.” \nNone showed us the pity such cases are in need of. No\, not even those \nFirst Parents of ours\, so truly “of the earth”\, “earthly” did they prove. Parents at \nonce of our nature and our guilt\, they gave us death at the very time that they \ngave us life. They sowed what was indeed theirs to bestow; they freely donated \nwhat they had themselves sadly discovered. They begot us into their own \nconfused condition\, children in every way like their fathers. Just as our First \nParents reaped variously from different sources\, so did they sow in different \nways\, implanting in us nature from God and guilt from the devil. No wonder our \norigins condition us so that we are children of God and children of the devil. We \nare good\, well-endowed creatures of God\, and also wickedly and woefully ruined \nby the devil. On the one hand\, we have a nature that makes us something; on the \nother\, we bear the guilt that brings us to nothing. \nThis last\, this nothingness of ours\, is all the devil’s doing and is precisely \nthat from which the Son of God at his coming\, would loose and free us\, and so \nrescue that something that we really are. He came to restore what is his in us to \ndestroy what another has done to us… He would separate the good from the evil \nin us\, the evil from the good\, the precious from the vile… \nWe have but to listen to Isaiah would we learn how resolutely and how \nready Christ came to the task of our redemption. “From the root of Jesse\,” he \nsays\, “a rod shall burgeon”—it could not do so from the branches— “and out of \nits root a flower shall spring.” This should kindle hope in me: flowers are sure \nharbingers of fruit. “On him the spirit of the Lord will rest.” No wonder the Fruit \nis so Good. Where else could Christ be conceived if not in Nazareth\, where born \nsave in Bethlehem? On him had rested “a spirit wise and discerning.” His soul \nwas indeed rich in virtue\, abounding in divine gifts; and not for nothing. Having \nto measure up to and vanquish seven forms of concupiscence\, the Gifts of the \nSpirit are seven; Adam’s cravings are countered by seven Gifts in Christ. Seven \nwounds call for seven medicines\, one against the other. Though nature in Adam \nis one thing and guilt is another\, yet both are in him together. \nWere a single fountain to supply\, even if by different pipes\, wine and \nwater together\, the result would mean drawing watered wine or wine-filled \nwater. This is our case\, “sons of Adam!” Our “wine has grown watery;” our \nnative guilt and our guilty nature\, both\, come [into existence] simultaneously. \nYour nature is no sooner a good gift of the Good God than it is guilt infected by \nthe Wicked One. Child begotten to man is by that very fact sinner begotten to \nsinner. Our nature\, for all its goodness\, is never without evil or guilt; this very \nevil guilt has no foothold except in a nature that is good.
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