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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:TODAY HE MANIFESTED \nHIS GLORY \nFrom a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny \n◊◊◊ \n“Arise\, be enlightened\, Jerusalem\, for your Light has come.” This present \nday of lights has been enlightened for us and consecrated by the Light of Light. \nHe had lain hidden and unknown\, but today he has vouchsafed to reveal himself \nto the world for the enlightenment of all nations. For today he revealed himself \nto the Chaldeans by the sign of a new star\, dedicating in them as in first fruits the \nfaith of all nations. Today he revealed himself to the Jews\, by the witness not \nonly of John but also of the Father and of the Holy Spirit\, when\, baptized in the \nJordan\, he consecrated the baptism of all. Today he manifested his glory before \nhis disciples when by changing water into wine he prefigured that ineffable \nmystery in which by his word the substance of things are changed… \nThe Lord indeed had come; he was in the world\, and the world was made \nthrough him\, but the world did not know him. He was born\, but he was not \nknown\, until the day of light began to manifest him. So the Prophet says: “O new \nJerusalem\, great city of the new king\, arise\, be enlightened\, for your light has \ncome.” Arise\, you who sit in darkness; look at the light which has risen up in the \ndarkness but is not mastered by the darkness. Draw near to him and be \nenlightened\, in his light you shall see the light\, and it will be said to you: “You \nwere once darkness\, but now you are light in the Lord.” Look upon the Eternal \nLight which has tempered itself to your gaze\, so that he who dwells in \ninaccessible light affords access even to weak and bleary eyes. See the Light in a \nlamp of earthenware\, the Sun in a cloud\, God in man\, the Splendor of Glory and \nBrightness of Eternal Light in the clay vessel of your flesh. \nMajesty indeed lies hid in human nature\, power in lowliness; but signs \nand prodigies break through the covering and leave no doubt as to their origin. \n“The works which I do\,” he says\, “bear witness to me.” Great indeed is the \nwitness of John\, who came to bear witness as a lamp to the light. But much \ngreater is that heavenly witness which the Father and the Holy Spirit bore to the \nSon\, the Father by his voice\, the spirit in the form of a dove; since on the \nevidence of two witnesses every claim is established… A new-born child cries on \nearth while in the heavens he creates a new star\, so that light may witness to \nLight\, a star to the Sun\, and so that kings in the splendor of its rising may be led \nto the Eternal Splendor which has also risen up… \nThanks be to you who bade light shine out of darkness and have kindled a \nlight in our hearts whose shining is to make known your glory as you have \nrevealed it in the features of Jesus Christ… We know indeed through faith\, \nholding on to it as to a trustworthy pledge so that we shall know by sight too. In \nthe meantime increase our faith\, leading us on from faith to faith\, from \nbrightness to brightness\, by your Spirit\, so that from day to day we may enter \nmore deeply into the treasures of light…until\, through faith\, we are led to the \nvision of your face\, as if led by a leading star to our Leader at Bethlehem.
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