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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST AUGUSTINE \n◊◊◊ \nConcern with my charge as a bishop has unceasingly preoccupied me \nsince I have had placed upon my shoulders this burden of which I have \nrigorously to give account. But what is there to fear in this gift of being a bishop? \nIt is that I may be carried away by the perilous honor that it comprises for us\, \nrather than by the fruitful salvation which it brings to you. Come to my aid\, then\, \nwith your prayers\, so that he who did not disdain to confer my burden upon me \nmay deign to bear it with me. \nNow\, when you offer this prayer\, it is for yourselves that you are praying. \nFor\, this burden of mine of which I speak\, what else is it\, if it is not you? Pray \nthat I may be strong\, as I\, for my part\, pray that you may not be heavy. Our Lord \nJesus Christ would never\, indeed\, have called his burden light if he were not \ncarrying it with the bearer. And you\, also must uphold me\, so that\, in accordance \nwith the command of the Apostle\, we may bear one another’s burdens\, and so \nfulfill the law of Christ. If he does not bear it with us\, we succumb; if he does not \nbear us\, we fall. \nIf what I am on your behalf terrifies me\, what I am with you reassures me. \nFor you\, indeed\, I am the bishop; with you I am a Christian. Bishop\, that is the \ntitle of a charge which one assumes; Christian\, that is the name of the grace \nwhich one receives. A perilous title; a saving name. In any event\, we are tossed \nabout in the whirlwind of this activity as though in an immense sea. \nBut\, remembering with what blood we have been redeemed\, and rendered \ntranquil by this thought\, we come as though into a sure haven; toiling at a \ncharge which is personal to us\, we find rest in the blessedness that is common to \nall. If it is more pleasing to me to be redeemed with you that to be your head\, I \nshall be more fully your servant\, as the Lord ordains. And so\, may I never be in \ndebt for the price\, thanks to which I have succeeded in becoming your fellow- \nservant. \nI must indeed love my Redeemer\, and I know what he says to Peter: \n“Peter\, do you love me? Feed my sheep.” He says it once\, twice\, three times. He \nquestions Peter on love\, he prescribes the work to be done\, for the greater the \nlove\, the less the toil. “What shall I render the Lord for all his bounty to me?” \nShould I dare to say that I will repay him by leading his sheep to pasture? I do so\, \nto be sure\, but not I; it is the “grace of God towards me.” Where\, then shall I find \nwhat is my due\, if from every direction he forestalls me? One could in fact ask no \npayment of one whom one loves freely\, if the payment were not the very person \nwhom one loves.
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