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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nFRANCOIS MAURIAC \n◊◊◊ \nIt sometimes happens that I feel all the nearer to a believer\, to someone \ndevout\, the further away the person is from my own Church. This is a paradox \nonly in appearance. Faced with a Muslim or a Jew\, if they are devout\, I know in \nadvance\, even before they have spoken a word\, what it is that separates me from \nthem. The abyss that lies between us is\, in a way\, familiar to me. It could \ncontain nothing to surprise me. But what is unfamiliar to me\, and what I love to \ndiscover\, is this word of adoration which I suddenly recognize\, this prayer which \ncould have sprung from my own heart\, this love of the Father who is in heaven\, \nand sometimes\, even among certain Jews\, this attraction to Christ. \nI remember\, one day\, finding myself at table beside a young Jewish \nwoman\, and we spoke of these problems; she told me that she could not believe \nin the divinity of Christ; and suddenly her voice changed and she said in a \nmoving tone\, ‘But I love him’. \nOn the all too rare occasions when I am privileged to meet a true Israelite \nor a Muslim who is a mystic\, I think of all the many rooms that are in the \nFather’s House. And what I feel as regards a son of Israel\, or a son of the \nProphet\, I feel still more\, needless to say\, with Christians who belong to \ndifferent confessions but who live in Christ\, with those of my separated brethren \nwho have a living faith. \nI feel it again\, with certain souls who belong to no definite confession and \nwho live\, as Simone Weil lived\, on the borders of the Church; and the light \nwhich comes across to them and which those souls refract\, perhaps because it \ndoes not find expression in traditional forms\, is all the more enlightening to me. \nGrace here appears in its natural state\, outside all the means which are its usual \nchannel to us. It is rather like discovering that strangers know and love a secret \nplace in the forest which was the objective of our solitary walks. We wonder how \nthey came there by paths unknown to us.
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