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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH \nFrom a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux2 \n◊◊◊ \nAt the first coming John the Baptist cries out like a herald— or rather\, as his \nherald— Behold the Lamb of God\, behold him who takes away the sins of the world! He \ndoes not say ‘diseases of the body ’ or ‘vexations of the flesh’\, but ‘sin’\, which is a \ndisease of the soul and a corruption of the mind. Behold him who takes away the sins \nof the world. [Take away] from where? From the hand\, from the eye\, from the \nneck…from the very flesh on which it has been so deeply impressed. He takes sin \naway from the hands when he wipes out the sins they have committed. He takes it \naway from the eye when he purifies the purpose of the heart. He takes it from the neck \nwhen he sets aside abusive domination\, as is written: You have vanquished the rod of \ntheir oppressor as on the day of Midian… \nYou grasp why Christ came and what a Christian’s purpose should be. For this \nreason\, O body\, do not anticipate the time! You can hinder the soul’s salvation\, you \ncannot bring about your own… Let the soul work now for itself—or rather\, you work \nwith it— because if you suffer with it you will also reign with it. To the degree you \nhinder its restoration\, you hinder your own\, because you cannot be restored at all \nuntil God sees his image re-formed in your soul. You have a noble guest\, O flesh\, noble \nindeed\, and your welfare depends entirely on its welfare. Honor so great a guest! You \nare dwelling in your own land\, but the soul is a pilgrim\, an exile\, lodging with you. \nI ask you\, if someone noble and powerful should want to lodge with them\, \nwould any peasant not willingly sleep in some corner of the house— or under the \nstairs or even in the ashes— giving up the best place to the guest\, as is appropriate? \nAnd you\, therefore\, do likewise. Take no notice of your own slights or inconvenience \nso long as your guest can stay with you with honor. The honor is yours if for his sake \nyou meanwhile present yourself as being without honor. \nAnd in case you look down on or undervalue your guest because it seems to \nyou to be a pilgrim and a stranger\, think carefully about what you gain from the \npresence of this guest. This is who grants sight to the eyes and hearing to the ears; \nwho supplies sound to the tongue\, taste to the palate\, movement to all your limbs… \nIndeed… just as soon as the soul departs the tongue will fall silent\, the eyes will see \nnothing\, the ears will go deaf\, the whole body will stiffen\, and the face will lose its \ncolor. In a short time the whole corpse will decay and become putrid; all its \nattractiveness will turn to corruption. \nWhy then do you distress and wound this guest for the sake of some transient \npleasure which you could not even experience except through it? Besides\, if it confers \nso much on you when it is an exile\, estranged from its master’s face because of \nhostilities\, what all will it give you when it has been reconciled? Do not\, O body\, do \nnot impede this reconciliation; abundant glory is prepared for you from it. Patiently— \nor rather\, gladly— surrender yourself to everything. Omit nothing that seems capable \nof furthering this reconciliation. Say to your guest: Your Lord will remember you and \nrestore you to your former position. Just remember me!… Then all our longings are \ngoing to be fulfilled and the whole earth shall be filled with the majesty of the Lord. \nTo this glory\, to this happiness\, to this peace which surpasses all understanding may \nhe in his mercy lead us. May he not disappoint us in our expectation\, he who is the \nSaviour we expect Jesus Christ our Lord\, who is over all\, God blessed forever \n2 Bernard of Clairvaux. Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season. CF 51. Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian Publications\, \n2007. 36-40.5 \n 
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