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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St John Chrysostom
DESCRIPTION:ST CHRYSOSTOM’S CHARM \nFrom “Historical Sketches” by St John Henry Newman1 \n◊◊◊ \nWhence this devotion to St. John Chrysostom\, which leads me to dwell \nupon the thought of him\, and makes me kindle at his name\, when so many other \ngreat Saints command indeed my veneration\, but exert no personal claim upon \nmy heart? Many holy people have died in exile\, many holy people have been \nsuccessful preachers; and what more can we write upon St. Chrysostom’s \nmonument than this\, that he was eloquent and that he suffered persecution? He \nis not an Athanasius\, expounding a sacred dogma with a luminousness which is \nalmost an inspiration. Nor\, except by the contrast\, does he remind us of that \nAmbrose who kept his ground obstinately in an imperial city\, and fortified \nhimself against the heresy of a court by the living rampart of a devoted \npopulation. Nor is he Gregory or Basil\, rich in the literature and philosophy of \nGreece\, and embellishing the Church with the spoils of heathenism. Nor is he a \nJerome\, so dead to the world that he can imitate the point and wit of its writers \nwithout danger to himself or scandal to his brethren. He has not trampled upon \nheresy\, nor smitten emperors\, nor beautified the house or the service of God\, \nnor knit together the portions of Christendom\, nor founded a religious order\, \nnor built up the framework of doctrine\, nor expounded the science of the Saints; \nyet I love him\, as I love David or St. Paul. \nHow am I to account for it? I consider St. Chrysostom’s charm to lie in his \nintimate sympathy and compassionateness for the whole world\, not only in its \nstrength\, but in its weakness; in the lively regard with which he views everything \nthat comes before him\, taken in the concrete\, whether as made after its own \nkind or as gifted with a nature higher than its own. It is the interest which he \ntakes in all things\, not so far as God has made them alike\, but as he has made \nthem different from each other…13 \nI speak of the kindly spirit and the genial temper with which he looks \nround at all things which this wonderful world contains; of the graphic fidelity \nwith which he notes them down upon the tablets of his mind\, and of the \npromptitude and propriety with which he calls them up as arguments or \nillustrations in the course of his teaching as the occasion requires. Possessed \nthough he be by the fire of ardent charity\, he has not lost one fibre\, he does not \nmiss one vibration\, of the complicated whole of human sentiment and affection; \nlike the miraculous bush in the desert\, which for all the flame that wrapt it \nround\, was not thereby consumed. \nThat loving scrutiny\, with which he follows the Apostles as they reveal \nthemselves to us in their writings\, he practices in various ways towards all \npeople\, living and dead\, high and low\, those whom he admires and those whom \nhe weeps over. He writes as one who was ever looking out with sharp but kind \neyes upon the world of humans and their history; and hence he has always \nsomething to produce about them\, new or old\, to the purpose of his argument\, \nwhether from books or from the experience of life… This is why his manner of \nwriting is so rare and special; and why\, when once a student enters into it\, he \nwill ever recognize him\, wherever he meets with extracts from him.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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