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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “The Mirror of Charity” by \nST AELRED OF RIEVAULX \n◊◊◊ \nNow let us examine quite carefully the measure to be observed in natural \nattachments. Just as it is clearly impossible not to allow this attachment\, so not \nto follow it is the summit of virtue. No one has ever hated himself\, and yet\, \n“anyone who comes to me”\, said the Savior\, “and does not hate his own life \ncannot be my disciple”. Likewise\, “anyone who comes to me and does not hate \nhis father and mother cannot be my disciple”. \nThe apostle\, on the other hand\, says: anyone who does not provide for his \nrelatives\, especially if they live with him\, has disowned the faith and is worse \nthan an unbeliever. What then? Should master and disciple\, servant and Lord\, \nvery Truth and Truth’s friend\, be thought to have had contrary points of view? \nFar from it! \nBetween these two loves about which we have spoken above\, a distinction \nmust be made: the one is according to attachment; the other according to \nreason. It is natural for a person to have an attachment for himself and his own \nrelatives\, but one ought not form his love according to attachment. It ought \nrather to be according to reason. This attachment was meant when the apostle \nsaid\, “no one has ever hated his own flesh”. Yet love according to attachment is \nforbidden on the authority of the Savior himself\, who said\, “anyone who comes \nto me and does not hate his father and mother\, yes\, and even his own life\, cannot \nhe my disciple”. Love according to reason was indicated when the apostle said\, \n“anyone who does not provide for his relatives\, especially if they live with him\, \nhas disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever”. \nLove according to attachment was denounced when Paul\, foretelling ills \nto come\, said among other things: There will be persons who will love \nthemselves. The following words teach us that here he understood this as love \naccording to attachment: For there will be persons who love themselves\, who \nwill be avaricious\, proud\, who will love pleasure rather than God. Attachment \nalways suggests things that are pleasant and soft. It willingly embraces what is \ndelightful and tender\, what is pleasurable and delicate. But anything arduous \nand harsh\, anything that goes against self-will\, it flees in utter dread and avoids. \nHence\, following this attachment through is perverse love; it strips a \nperson of his humanness and vests him in animal form\, destroying in a way and \nhiding every trace of reason\, of integrity\, and ultimately\, of usefulness. This love \nis characteristic of beasts\, and excusable in children\, because reason has not \nbeen bestowed on the former and is dormant in the latter.
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