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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - SS John\, Isaac & Companions
DESCRIPTION:A letter from St Isaac Jogues to \nHIS PROVINCIAL \n◊◊◊ \nDuring my captivity\, I would recall my past life\, so blameworthy because \nof my numerous sins and my infidelity to God. I groaned at being stopped in the \nmiddle of my course\, having no good works to send before me\, rejected by my \nGod\, and without the sacraments. Truly\, in this situation where I wanted to live \nand dreaded to die\, I would moan with distress\, and say to my God: “When shall \nthere be an end to my miseries and griefs? When will you ‘bring calm after the \nstorm and fill us with joy and exultation after our tears’? ‘If those days had not \nbeen shortened\, my flesh would have perished'”. \nI had recourse to the support of Holy Scripture\, my usual refuge\, certain \npassages of which I kept in my memory. It was these that taught me to “think of \nthe Lord in goodness”\, even if I felt no sensible devotion\, and to recall that “the \nholy one shall live by faith”. I would explore these passages; I would probe the \nsmallest streams in my efforts to quench my constant thirst. I would “ponder \nhis law by day and night”. “Were not your law my great delight\, I should by now \nhave perished in my grief”. \nHaving thus spent two months in that retreat where I had become\, like St \nBernard\, the disciple of the beech trees\, I thought of nothing but God. Because \nall the natives hated me and could stand me no longer\, they sent me back to the \nvillage before the usual time. During the trip\, which took eight days\, loaded \nunder the enormous weight of food that I was carrying\, I had become as it were a \nbeast of burden before God; still I tried to remain always with him\, not knowing \nwhat awaited me in the village. \n2 An Autobiography of Martyrdom\, St Louis 1964\, pp 227-229.5 \nA few of those who had preceded us into the village had spread all sorts of \nrumors about me. On the road\, since I was almost naked and spent the largest \npart of the night outdoors\, I suffered very much from the cold\, because the \nwounds of my fingers\, which had only closed up toward the middle of January\, \nwere still not completely healed. In the village they gave me a thin skin to use in \naddition to the old coat I was wearing. In this clothing\, still rather insufficient\, I \nwent through the streets begging our Lord to let me join his saints\, those souls \nwho had served him “dressed in sheepskins and goatskins\, destitute\, distressed\, \nmistreated. The world was not worthy of them. And every day I saw the savages \nwell covered with the woolens and the vestments that had been in great supply \nin our baggage\, while day and night I was stiff with cold… What bothered me \nmost was to see those men use for secular purposes the vestments that had been \ndestined for use at the altar… \nThroughout this whole period\, which lasted until about the middle of \nJanuary\, I could say before God: “To this very hour we are victims of hunger and \nthirst; we are poorly clad and knocked around; we are vagabonds and wear \nourselves out with manual labor. When they call us ugly names\, we speak well \nof them. When they persecute us\, we bear it patiently. When they insult us\, we \nspeak gently…
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