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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Bede the Venerable
DESCRIPTION:YOU TOO WILL BEAR WITNESS \nA homily from St Bede the Venerable7 \n◊◊◊ \nWe find from many places in the holy gospel that before the coming of the \nHoly Spirit\, the disciples were less capable of understanding the hidden \nmysteries of the divine sublimity and were less brave in tolerating the \nadversities brought on by human depravity. When the Spirit came upon them \nwith an increase of divine insight\, there was given them the constancy [needed] \nto overcome human persecution as well. Hence it is said to them now\, in the \nLord’s promise\, ‘When the Paraclete comes\, whom I shall send you from the \nFather\, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father\, he will bear witness \nabout me; and you too will bear witness’… \nThe Spirit\, upon his coming\, bore witness concerning the Lord. Breathing \ninto the hearts of the disciples\, he revealed to them by his bright light everything \nabout which mortals were to have knowledge concerning [the Lord]\, namely\, \nthat he was equal and of the same substance with the Father before the ages; \nthat he became of the same substance as we at the end of the ages; that he was \nborn of a virgin and lived in the world without sin; that he went forth from the \nworld when he wished and by the kind of death that he wished; that by rising \nfrom the dead he truly destroyed death and raised up the true flesh in which he \nhad suffered\, and at his ascension took it up into heaven\, and established it at \nthe right hand of his Father’s glory; that all the writings of the prophets bear \nwitness to him; that the confession of his name was to be extended even to the \nend of the earth\, and that the rest of the mysteries of his faith were unlocked for \nhis disciples by the testimony of the Holy Spirit. Nor was whatever they \n7 Bede the Venerable. Homilies on the Gospels: Book Two – Lent to the Dedication of \nthe Church. Trans. Lawrence T. Martin and David Hurst\, OSB. Kalamazoo\, MI: \nCistercian Publications\, 1991. 149-151.15 \ncorrectly discerned conceded to them alone by the gift of the Spirit\, but also to \nall who believe in the Lord through their word. \n‘He’\, Jesus says\, ‘will bear witness concerning me\, and you will bear \nwitness’. Once they had put aside their initial fear\, they ministered outwardly \nby telling others what they had received inwardly by the Spirit’s teaching. The \nSpirit himself both illumined their hearts by knowledge of the truth\, and by the \npreeminence of his power roused them to teach what they knew. Hence in \nIsaiah the Spirit is rightly called ‘of strength and knowledge’. He is indeed the \nSpirit of knowledge\, since it is by his help that we rightly acknowledge what we \nmust do and even think; he is also the Spirit of strength\, since it is by his help \nthat we receive [the strength] to carry out what we know well that we should do\, \nlest we be driven away by some adversity from the good deeds we have begun… \nHe who warned them ahead of time that the hour of persecution would \ncome is the one who\, a little later\, pledged his help to his faithful in the \npersecution\, saying\, ‘You will have distress in the world; but have confidence; \nI have overcome the world’. He elsewhere promised the crown of life to those \nwho are sincerely engaged in strife\, saying\, ‘Blessed are those who suffer \npersecution for the sake of justice\, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’.
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