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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nWILLIAM OF ST THIERRY \n◊◊◊ \nIn order that your solitude may not appall you and that you may dwell the \nmore safely in your cell three guardians have been assigned to you: God\, your \nconscience and your spiritual father. To God you owe devotion and the entire \ngift of yourself; to your conscience the respect which will make you ashamed to \nsin in its presence; to your spiritual father the obedience of charity and recourse \nin everything. \nIn addition\, to make you grateful to me\, I will add a fourth and provide \nyou with a monitor for as long as you are small and have not learned to keep the \npresence of God before your mind. \nIf you will take my advice\, you will choose for yourself a man whose life is \nsuch that it will serve as a model to impress upon your heart\, one whom you will \nso revere that whenever you think of him you will rise up because of the respect \nyou feel for him and put yourself in order. Think of him as if he were present and \nlet the charity you feel for one another act in you to correct all that needs to be \ncorrected\, while your solitude suffers no infringement of its secret. Let him be \npresent to you whenever you wish and let him come sometimes when you would \nhave preferred him to stay away. The thought of his holy severity will make it \nseem as if he were rebuking you; the thought of his kindness and goodness will \nbring you consolation; the purity and sanctity of his life will set you a good \nexample. \nFor you will be driven to correct even all your thoughts\, as if they were \nopen to his gaze and visited by his rebuke\, when you consider that he is \nwatching. So\, as the Apostle bids: “Keep guard on yourself” with the greatest \ncare and\, in order to have your eyes always on yourself\, turn your gaze away \nfrom all else. The eye is a remarkable instrument of the body – if only it could \nsee itself as it sees other things. Now the inner eye is enabled to do this. If then it \nfollows the example of the outward eye and neglects itself\, giving its attention to \nthe affairs of others\, it will not be able to return to itself\, however much it may \nwish to do so. \nGive your attention to yourself; you yourself constitute abundant matter \nfor solicitude for yourself. Shut out also from your outward eyes what you have \ngrown unaccustomed to see\, from your inner eyes what you no longer love\, since \nnothing so easily reasserts its claims as love\, especially in younger and more \ntender souls. \nMake bold also to be wise at times and desire the better gifts. Be yourself a \nparable of edification for yourself. You have one cell outwardly\, another within \nyou. The outward cell is the house in which your soul dwells together with your \nbody; the inner cell is your conscience and in that it is God who should dwell \nwith your spirit\, he who is more interior to you than all else that is within you. \nThe door of the outward enclosure is a sign of the guarded door within you\, so \nthat as the bodily senses are prevented from wandering abroad by the outward \nenclosure\, so the inner senses are kept always within their own domain. \n  \nThe Golden Epistle – William of St Thierry – Cistercian Fathers Series #12 – Kalamazoo\, MI – 1971 – pg 45.11 \n  \n  \n 
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