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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Augustine
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST AUGUSTINE \n◊◊◊ \nNow this trinity of the mind is the image of God\, not because the mind \nremembers\, understands\, and loves itself\, but because it also has the power to \nremember\, understand\, and love its Maker. And in doing this it attains wisdom. \nIf it does not do this\, the memory\, understanding and love of itself is no more \nthan an act of folly. Therefore\, let the mind remember its God\, to whose image it \nwas made\, let it understand and love Him. In brief\, let it worship the uncreated \nGod who created it with the capacity for himself\, and in whom it can be made \npartaker. Hence it is written: “Behold\, the worship of God is wisdom“. \nBy participating in that supreme Light\, wisdom will belong to the mind \nnot by its own light\, and it will reign in bliss only where the eternal Light is. The \nwisdom is so called human wisdom as to be also that of God. If wisdom were \nonly human\, it would be vain\, for only God’s wisdom is true wisdom. Yet when \nwe call it God’s wisdom\, we do not mean the wisdom by which God is wise: He is \nnot wise by partaking in himself as the mind is wise by partaking in God. It is \nmore like speaking of the justice of God not only to mean that God is just but to \nmean the justice he gives to us when he “justifies the ungodly“: to which the \nApostle alludes when speaking to those who “being ignorant of God’s justice\, \nand wanting to establish their own justice\, were not subject to the justice of \nGod”. In this way we might speak of those who\, ignorant of the wisdom of God \nand wanting to establish their own\, were not subject to the wisdom of God. \nThere is an uncreated Being who has made all other beings great and \nsmall\, certainly more excellent than everything he made\, and thus also more \nexcellent than the rational and intellectual being which we have been \ndiscussing\, namely\, the human mind\, made to the image of its Creator. And the \nBeing more excellent than all others is God. Indeed\, he is “not far from any one \nof us\,” as the Apostle says\, adding\, “for in him we live and move and have our \nbeing“. Were this said in a material sense we could understand it of our material \nworld: for in it also\, in respect to our body\, we live and move and are. The text \nshould be taken\, however\, in a more excellent and also invisible and intelligible \nway\, namely\, with respect to the mind that has been made to his image. \nIn fact\, what is there that is not in him of whom Holy Scripture says: “For \nfrom him and through him and in him are all things“? If all things are in Him\, in \nwhom except in him in whom they are can the living live or the moving more? Yet \nall are not with him in the sense in which he says “I am always with you”. Nor is he \nwith all things in the sense in which we say\, “The Lord be with you.” Our great \nmisery\, therefore\, is not to be with him without whom we cannot exist. \nUnquestionably\, we are never without him in whom we are; but if one does not \nremember him\, does not understand him or love him\, he is not with him.
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