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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:LIVING FOR GOD ALONE \nFrom “The Spiritual Exercises” of St Gertrud the Great \n◊◊◊ \nEarnestly wish with the cherished one to become inebriated with the wine \nof love and in union with God to become unconscious to the world; in the \nembrace of the cherished one to expire from yourself into God; and already \nalmost totally stripped of your humanness\, to go pleasantly to sleep on the \nbreast of Jesus. Thus\, dying daily to yourself in love and living for God alone\, \nyou may\, at the hour of death\, trustfully run up to death\, looking on it as the end \nof your exile\, the door of the kingdom\, and the gate of heaven. And say this with \nprayer and verse: \nHide me\, most loving Jesus\, in the hiding-place of your face from all \nthose plotting crafty devices against me\, and let my soul not be confounded \nwhen it speaks with its enemies at the gate; but fill it full of gladness with your \nmellifluous face. \nO God\, love\, you are the consummation and the end of all good: to the \nvery end\, you cherish what you choose; whatever comes into your hand\, you do \nnot toss out but preserve most diligently for yourself. Ah! By right of possession \nmake all my being and my consummation’s end your own forever. Spare me \nnow no longer\, but wound my heart to the spirit’s very marrow until you leave \nno spark of life within me. Rather\, take away with you my entire life\, reserving \nfor yourself my soul in you. \nWho will grant me to be consummated in you\, O charity\, and to be \ndelivered by your death from the prison of this body and to be freed from this \nsojourn? How good\, O love\, to see you\, have you\, and possess you for eternity. \nOn the day I depart this life\, may you yourself be present\, regardful of \ngreat consolation\, and may you bless me then in the beautiful dawn of the \nmanifest contemplation of you. Now\, O love\, I here leave you behind and \ncommend to you my life and\, at the same time\, my soul: allow me\, allow me now \nto rest and fall asleep in you in peace.
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