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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THINK OF YOURSELF IN HUMILITY \nFrom a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny2 \n◊◊◊ \nNow you\, blessed sinner\, although not blessed because a sinner but \nbecause repentant of sin\, what encouragement was yours in your father’s \nembrace and his kiss\, when he restored his love to you of whom he had almost \ndespaired\, when he made your heart clean again and overwhelmed you with the \njoy of your salvation. \n“And how\,” he says\, “shall speech explain what the mind cannot contain?” \nUnspeakable are the groans and inexplicable the affections to which the spirit \ngives birth as if impregnated by the incomprehensible. The human heart is too \nnarrow for them and therefore it is torn and pours itself out. The ardor\, which \nit conceives but cannot contain\, it breathes forth and spreads abroad in what \nways it can\, by tears\, groans\, sighs. These things are better known to people who \nhave tasted them often and abundantly. \nNow also\, I say\, when you have been released after those embraces and \nkisses\, when you think over what has passed between you and him\, when you \nconsider what your cause was and how it was judged by him\, bearing in mind \non the one hand the abundance of your offence\, on the other hand the \nsuperabundance of his grace\, to what\, I ask\, does your thought give birth in you? \n“Naught but this”\, he says\, “that an unutterable fire blazes out in my \nmeditation\, on the one hand for sorrow and shame\, on the other hand for joy \nand love. I would not consider myself a man but a stone if I were so hard-hearted \nas not to grieve or be ashamed\, or so wicked and ungrateful as not to be wholly \nliquefied for joy or love of that father.” \nKeep then\, O happy sinner\, keep carefully and watchfully this spirit of \nyours\, this most fitting affection of humility and devotion by which you may \nalways think of yourself in humility and of the Lord in goodness. There is \nnothing greater than it among the gifts of the Holy Spirit\, nothing more precious \nin the treasures of God\, nothing more holy among all the charisms\, nothing \nmore health giving in all the sacraments…. \n  \n2 Guerric of Igny – Liturgical Sermons – vol. 1 – CF #8 _ Cistercian Publications – Spencer\, MA – 1970 p 143.5 \n  \n 
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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