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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:From a prayer by \nWILLIAM OF ST THIERRY \n◊◊◊ \nO Truth supreme\, you are the heaven of heavens\, you who are what you \nare\, who have your being from yourself\, who belong to yourself and are \nsufficient to yourself. You lack nothing\, yet you have no excess; you have within \nyourself supremest concord\, utmost clarity\, most perfect fullness and \ncompletest life. \nO Lord\, the height\, the depth\, the wisdom and the might – are these the \nheaven of which you are the door? It is so\, truly; that is why the ark of the \ncovenant was seen in heaven when the door was opened… You are yourself that \nark. In you from all eternity was hidden\, and in you in these latter days has been \nfulfilled\, all that from the beginning of the world has been revealed to all the \nsaints and prophets by the Law and by the prophecies\, by wonders and by \nsigns… \nThese blessings\, that were hidden in your secret heaven through the ages\, \nyou at the ages’ end unveiled to the world’s longing eyes\, when you opened in \nheaven the door that is yourself. You opened that door when your grace \nappeared to all [people]\, teaching us… The heavens being thus opened\, all the \ngood and glory and delight of heaven poured itself out on earth. And then\, O \nGod\, who spared not your own Son\, but delivered him up for us all\, the \ngreatness of your kindness…to us was published openly to all. You made known \nyour salvation to the world\, and in the sight of all the nations you revealed your \nrighteousness… \nThose unsearchable riches of your glory\, Lord\, were hidden in your secret \nplace in heaven until the soldier’s spear opened the side of your Son our Lord \nand Savior on the cross\, and from it flowed the mysteries of our redemption. \nNow we may not only thrust our finger or our hand into his side\, like Thomas\, \nbut through that open door may enter whole\, O Jesus\, even into your heart\, the \nsure seat of your mercy\, even into your holy soul that is filled with the fullness of \nGod\, full of grace and truth\, full of our salvation and our consolation… \nOpen\, O Lord\, the ark-door of your side\, that all your own who shall be \nsaved may enter in\, before this flood that overwhelms the earth. Open to us your \nbody’s side\, that those who long to see the secrets of your Son may enter in\, and \nmay receive the sacraments that flow [from there]\, even the price of their \nredemption. Open the door of your heaven\, that your redeemed may see the \ngood things of God in the land of the living\, though they still labor in the land of \nthe dying… \nOpen to me\, O Lord\, so that\, although I am a stranger unworthy of \nenrollment as a citizen\, yet nonetheless\, I may by your gift be suffered on \noccasion for a little while to journey there\, that I may truly see your glory\, and \nnot come out again unless I am thrown out!.. O\, if only I may see\, if only I may \npersevere\, if only I may hear some day: “Enter into the joy of your Lord\,” and \nmay thus enter in\, never to come out again!
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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