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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Bartholomew
DESCRIPTION:THE VIRTUE OF INNOCENCE \nFrom a sermon by St John Henry Newman1 \n◊◊◊ \nIt is not only among the poor and lowly that the blessed character \nof guilelessness is found to exist. Secular learning and dignity have \ndoubtless in their respective ways a powerful tendency to rob the heart of \nits brightness and purity; yet even in kings’ courts\, and the schools of \nphilosophy\, Bartholomew may be discovered. Nay\, like the Apostles\, they \nhave been subjected to the world’s buffets\, they have been thwarted in \ntheir day\, lived in anxiety\, and seemingly lost by their honesty\, yet without \nbeing foiled either of its present comfort or its ultimate fruit. \nI have in these remarks spoken of guileless persons as members of \nsociety\, because I wished to show that\, even in that respect in which they \nseem deficient\, they possess a hidden strength\, and unconscious wisdom\, \nwhich makes them live above the world\, and sooner or later triumph over \nit. The weapons of their warfare are not carnal; and they are fitted to be \nApostles\, though they seem to be ordinary people. Such is the blessedness \nof the innocent\, that is\, of those who have never given way to evil\, or \nformed themselves to habits of sin; who in consequence literally do not \nknow its power of its misery who have thoughts of truth and peace ever \nbefore them\, and are able to discern at once the right and wrong in \nconduct\, as by some delicate instrument which tells truly because it has \nnever been ill-treated. \nNay\, such may be the portion (through God’s mercy) even of those \nwho have at one time departed from Him\, and then repented; in \nproportion as they have learned to love God\, and have purified \nthemselves\, not only from sin\, but from the recollections of it.15 \nLastly\, more is requisite for the Christian\, even than guilelessness \nsuch as Bartholomew’s. When Christ sent forth him and his brethren into \nthe world\, He said\, “Behold\, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of \nwolves; be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.” \nInnocence must be joined to prudence\, discretion\, self-command\, gravity\, \npatience\, perseverance in well-doing\, as Bartholomew doubtless learned \nin due season under his Lord’s teaching; but innocence is the beginning. \nLet us then pray God to fulfill in us “all the good pleasure of His \ngoodness\, and the work of faith with power;” that if it should please Him \nsuddenly to bring us forward to great trials\, as He did His Apostles\, we \nmay not be taken by surprise\, but be found to have made a private or \ndomestic life a preparation for the achievements of Confessor and \nMartyrs.
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