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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Cecilia
DESCRIPTION:THE VIRGINITY OF \nST CECILIA \nFrom a homily by Fr Ronald Knox \n◊◊◊ \nThe legends of the early Roman saints\, among whom St Cecilia is \nnumbered\, do not always command great attention from the critically minded \nhistorian. But whether the story of St Cecilia as it is told in her acts is all true or \nonly partly true\, there is a simplicity about the whole story and a simplicity \nabout St Cecilia’s character in the story which demands a retelling. \nLet me remind you in the most general way of her story: how she was \nmarried to a young pagan called Valerian\, but persuaded him to respect her vow \nof virginity\, because her guardian angel would make him sorry for it if he did \notherwise; how Valerian wanted to see this guardian angel\, but Cecilia\, with her \ninnocent craft\, said he could not do that unless he was baptized first; how he was \nbaptized\, and saw the angel at her side as she prayed; how he made a convert of \nhis brother Tiburtius\, and how first the two brothers\, and then Cecilia herself \nwere punished with death for professing the Christian religion. It is an old story\, \nand a familiar one: and while we do all homage to other great saints for their \npublic witness to Christ\, we shall always need St Cecilia as well\, quietly working \nat home for the conversion of her own husband and his family. \nNot that St Cecilia herself was in the position of a modern wife. Like so \nmany Christian ladies of her time\, she had taken\, in imitation of our blessed \nLady\, a vow of perpetual virginity. These virgin martyrs were martyrs because \nthey were virgins: it was because they insisted on keeping their vow when their \nparents wished them to marry that the secret of their attachment to the \nChristian faith was discovered; and it was their persistency in maintaining it \nthat led to their martyrdom. \nIt would be hard to estimate…how much the unpopularity in Roman \nsociety of the Christian faith owed to its tradition of virginity. Virginity is an \nideal which the pagan had no right to misunderstand. For\, in theory\, they\, too\, \nhonored it; and it should have commended itself to their heathen instinct for \nsacrifice. For the point of a sacrifice is that the victim should be spotless\, the \nbest of its kind. You must offer not what you can well afford to spare\, but what \nwill cost you something. That is the pagan idea of sacrifice; and the Christian \nidea of sacrifice is based on the same principle. In order to give up something to \nGod\, we forgo\, not the sinful pleasures which we have no right to in any case\, but \nthe lawful pleasures which he has given us to enjoy if we will. \nSo\, let St Cecilia’s feast remind us to take our Christian vocation seriously\, \nto follow out in our lives the words we profess with our lips. And may this \nRoman maiden pray for us who worship here and for those who minister to us\, \nthat when Christ\, the Master she served\, comes again in judgment\, we may be \nfound blameless before almighty God.
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