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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A THRONE \nFOR THE MOST HIGH \nFrom a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny \n◊◊◊ \n[Christ the Lord] is to be not merely invited but drawn into the guest \nchamber of our heart by the violence of our prayers and the vehemence of our \nfervor. [But] sometimes he makes as though he would go farther on; he does so \nfor no other reason than that he may prove the zeal of your love. \nBut what does it mean\, you say\, that Jesus makes as though he would go \nfurther? What else than what Ecclesiastes tells us of himself: “I have said\, I will \nbe wise\, and [wisdom] departed farther from me.” The Spouse speaks more \nexplicitly when\, giving voice to our daily complaint\, she says: “I rose up to open \nto my beloved\, but he had turned aside and was gone. I sought him\, and found \nhim not\, I called\, and he did not answer me\,” just as he did not answer the \nCanaanite woman either. You too are wont to call on the Spirit of wisdom\, you \nare accustomed to seek the Spirit of grace in prayer. If it seems that he draws \nfarther away from you\, do not despair but be more importunate in your pleading \nuntil you hear him answer you: “Great is your faith\, be it done to you as you \nwill.” \nBut when you invite Jesus take care that you do not invite the God of \nmajesty into an unclean and unworthy dwelling where a wrangling [spouse] or \nclouds of smoke or a dripping roof would not allow even yourself to dwell in \npeace. For his place is in peace and nowhere else. Right and justice are the \npillars of his throne. \n“Now they seek me\,” he says\, “from day to day\, and desire to know my \nways as a nation that has done justice and has not forsaken the will of their \nGod.” “Right\,” he says\, “and justice are the pillars of his throne.” Do not plead \nthat it is a lavish dwelling you have to prepare for so great and so powerful a \nguest and that it is beyond the limits of your poverty. You have the means at \nhand. I speak in human terms because of the infirmity of your flesh\, or rather \nbecause of the narrowness of your mind. Make a perfect confession of your past \nlife\, have a good will in respect to all else (for there is peace to men of good will)\, \nand in this way you will have prepared with right and justice a throne for the \nMost High.
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