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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Bartholomew
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN \n◊◊◊ \nIt is not only among the poor and lowly that the blessed character of \nguilelessness is found to exist. Secular learning and dignity have doubtless in \ntheir respective ways a powerful tendency to rob the heart of its brightness and \npurity; yet even in kings’ courts\, and the schools of philosophy\, Bartholomew \nmay be discovered. Nay\, like the Apostles\, they have been subjected to the \nworld’s buffets\, they have been thwarted in their day\, lived in anxiety\, and \nseemingly lost by their honesty\, yet without being foiled either of its present \ncomfort or its ultimate fruit. \nI have in these remarks spoken of guileless persons as members of society\, \nbecause I wished to show that\, even in that respect in which they seem deficient\, \nthey possess a hidden strength\, and unconscious wisdom\, which makes them \nlive above the world\, and sooner or later triumph over it. The weapons of their \nwarfare are not carnal; and they are fitted to be Apostles\, though they seem to be \nordinary people. Such is the blessedness of the innocent\, that is\, of those who \nhave never given way to evil\, or formed themselves to habits of sin; who in \nconsequence literally do not know its power of its misery who have thoughts of \ntruth and peace ever before them\, and are able to discern at once the right and \nwrong in conduct\, as by some delicate instrument which tells truly because it \nhas never been ill-treated. Nay\, such may be the portion (through God’s mercy) \neven of those who have at one time departed from Him\, and then repented; in \nproportion as they have learned to love God\, and have purified themselves\, not \nonly from sin\, but from the recollections of it. \nLastly\, more is requisite for the Christian\, even than guilelessness such as \nBartholomew’s. When Christ sent forth him and his brethren into the world\, He \nsaid\, “Behold\, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore \nwise as serpents and harmless as doves.” Innocence must be joined to \nprudence\, discretion\, self-command\, gravity\, patience\, perseverance in well- \ndoing\, as Bartholomew doubtless learned in due season under his Lord’s \nteaching; but innocence is the beginning. \nLet us then pray God to fulfill in us “all the good pleasure of His goodness\, \nand the work of faith with power;” that if it should please Him suddenly to bring \nus forward to great trials\, as He did His Apostles\, we may not be taken by \nsurprise\, but be found to have made a private or domestic life a preparation for \nthe achievements of Confessor and Martyrs.
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