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SUMMARY:Reading: Friday After Ash Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:Anoint Your Head and Wash Your Face 6\nA Sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux \n…Beloved\, we enter the holy season of Lent\, a season of Christian warfare.\nWe are not the only ones who observe it; it is common to all who are in the unity of\nthe same faith. Why should all Christians not share in Christ’s fast? Why should\nthe members not follow the Head? If we receive good from this Head\, why should\nwe not endure the bad? Or do we wish to reject what is disagreeable but take our\nshare of pleasure? If that were the case we would show ourselves unworthy to share\nthe life of the Head. All that he suffered\, he suffered for us. If we are put off by\nbeing his collaborators in the work of our own salvation\, how will we later show\nourselves his coworkers? Surely it is no great thing for one who is to sit with Christ\nat the Father’s table to fast with him\, no great thing if a member suffer with the\nhead with whom he will be glorified! Happy is the member who clings to this Head\nthrough everything\, and follows him wherever he goes! But if he is cut off and\nseparated\, it must follow that he is deprived even of the breath of life. How will any\npart that does not remain united to the Head possess consciousness and life?\nClearly there will be someone to take possession of the parts exposed to view so they\ndon’t remain headless! The root of bitterness will spring up again\, and a poisonous\nhead will again come forth – the head which that valiant woman\, Mother Church\,\nhad previously crushed… \nFor me\, it is good to cling to you\, O glorious Head\, blessed forever\, on which\neven the angels desire to look! I will follow you wherever you go; if you pass\nthrough fire I will not be torn away from you\, nor will I fear evil\, for you are with\nme. You bear my griefs and you grieve over me; you go first through the narrow\ndoor of the passion to prepare a broad entrance for the members who follow. \nWho will separate us from the love of Christ? By this love the whole body\ngrows through its joints and ligaments. This is the good soldier Isaiah mentions.\nThis is what makes it so good and pleasant a thing for brethren to dwell together in\nunity. This ointment that flows down from the Head on to the beard flows even to\nthe skirts of the garment so that not the smallest thread lacks anointing. On the\nHead is the fullness of graces of which we all receive; on the Head is all mercy\, an\ninexhaustible font of divine loving-kindness\, and the whole abundance of spiritual\nointment. As it is written\, God\, your God\, has anointed you with the oil of gladness\nbeyond your companions. That Head\, which the Father had anointed so freely\,\nMary also did not fear to anoint. The disciples were scandalized\, but Truth\nanswered for her that she had performed a good work. \n…One who is faithful in a small thing is judged worthy of a greater reward.\nTherefore anoint your Head\, pouring out on him who is above whatever devotion or\ndelight or affection you have. Anoint your Head\, so that if there is any grace in you\nit may be ascribed to him\, and you may not seek your own glory\, but his… Anoint\nyour head and wash your face\, that is to say\, show yourself blameless so that you\nstrive to win for yourself divine grace and in the sight of others seek not your own\nglory\, but that of your Creator… \n6 Bernard of Clairvaux. Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season. CF 52. Trans. Irene Edmonds.\nCollegeville\, MN: Cistercian Publications\, 2013. 24-28.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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