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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:BEHOLD\, \nNOW IS THE ACCEPTABLE TIME \nFrom a sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx \n◊◊◊ \nThese forty days are called an acceptable time and named a day of \nsalvation\, because during these days the Lord cleanses and sanctifies his church \nthrough fasting. That is why the Lenten fast was established by the holy fathers\, \nso that whatever is lacking in us during the year may be purified and made clean \nfor the remaining times\, generally by fasting in this holy observance… \nMoses fasted for forty days and nights so that he would merit to receive \nthe law. And through fasting he merited to have an audience before God and to \nsee God face to face. So let anyone who desires to approach the Lord love \nfasting… Although we do not presume to investigate secret and profound \nmysteries of divinity\, let us nonetheless gain acquaintance with God as much as \nwe can. To do so we must still prepare and train ourselves; that way we might \ncontemplate God here as through a mirror and obscurely\, and in the future we \nmight see him face to face… \nThat forgiveness of sins is given generously through fasting\, we see \nmanifestly among the Ninevite penitents who took refuge in repentance and \nreconciled themselves to God through fasting…when the Lord had threatened \nthem\, through the prophet\, with death and overthrow of the city. In fact\, the \nwise king also learned to avoid the danger; having laid aside royal finery and \nsitting in ashes\, he exhausted his flesh with fasting\, ordering not only human \nbeings but even beasts to fast and to cry out to God through fasting with \ncourage. Thus they evaded the overturn of the Ninevite city and peril of death… \nEven Christ\, King and Lord of prophets\, who founded and sanctified \nfasting\, before he was tempted by the devil fasted forty days and nights\, to \nteach that the adversary is to be overcome through fasting. The Lord set an \nexample for us\, so if we want a full victory over the devil\, the world and the flesh\, \nthen let us take refuge in the weapons of fasting\, by which the devil is \nslaughtered\, the world is conquered\, and every attachment of the flesh is \nexpelled… \nFinally we must offer to God repentance in all of our sacrifices\, always \nrepenting that we either overlooked the good or continued in evil… Because \ntherefore the measure of repentance must be weighted according to the \nmeasure of sin\, it is necessary to produce fruit <worthy of> repentance. If your \nsuffering in correction is less than was your enjoyment in the fault\, then the fruit \nof your repentance is not worthy… \nStill\, so that a sinning conscience might be consoled\, the method and \nmeasure of exterior repentance have been set; as the conscience is satisfied and \nperfected you begin to have confidence\, and with a certain holy anticipation in \nthe hope of divine mercy\, you have confidence <regarding> pardon and \nforgiveness of sins\, so the more truly then the more sincerely you fulfill the \nimposed repentance… To the extent that we attain full and perfect pardon we \nmay also merit eternal glory.
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