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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading  -St Ignatius Loyola
DESCRIPTION:THE FIRST TRIAL OF \nIGNATIUS OF LOYOLA \nFrom The Autobiography of St Ignatius \n◊◊◊ \nOn the Vigil of the Annunciation in 1522 he set out at nightfall\, as \ndiscreetly as possible\, to find a beggar. Stripping off his clothes he gave them to \nthis pauper and dressed…in the garb for which he had longed. Then he went and \nknelt before the altar of our Lady\, where\, staff in hand\, he spent the whole night\, \nnow kneeling\, now standing\, and after receiving the Blessed Sacrament left at \nday-break <for Manresa>\, in order not to be recognized. \nIt was while he was living at the hospital at Manresa that the following \nstrange event took place. Very frequently on a clear moonlight night there \nappeared in the courtyard before him an indistinct shape which he could not see \nclearly enough to tell what it was. Yet it appeared so symmetrical and beautiful \nthat his soul was filled with pleasure and joy as he gazed at it. It had something \nof the form of a serpent with glittering eyes\, and yet they were not eyes. He felt \nan indescribable joy steal over him at the sight of this object. The oftener he saw \nit\, the greater was the consolation he derived from it\, and when the vision left \nhim\, his soul was filled with sorrow and sadness. \nUp to this period he had remained in a constant state of tranquility and \nconsolation\, without any interior knowledge of the trials that beset the \nspiritual life. But during the time that the vision lasted\, sometimes for days\, \nhis soul was violently agitated by a thought that brought him no little \nuneasiness. There flashed upon his mind the idea of the difficulty that \nattended the kind of life he had begun\, and he felt as if he head some one \nwhispering to him\, “How can you keep up for seventy years of your life these \npractices which you have begun?” Knowing that this thought was a \ntemptation of the evil one\, he expelled it by this answer: “Can you\, wretched \none\, promise me one hour of life?” In this manner he overcame the temptation\, \nand his soul was restored to peace. This was his first trial.
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