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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Bl Guerric
DESCRIPTION:THE POOR OF CHRIST \nFrom a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny \n◊◊◊ \nWhat then shall we bring to the Lord\, my brothers? Bring to the Lord \nglory of gold and honor of incense; bring to the Lord glory for his name\, myrrh \nfor his burial. But Christ’s disciple\, Peter’s son\, tells me: “Silver and gold I have \nnone\, nor bags of those foreign wares\, myrrh and incense.” Will you then appear \nempty-handed in the Lord’s sight… O rich poverty\, O wealthy nakedness – \nprovided it is Christian and freely willed. With what riches do you not abound\, \nnot only gold but the very best gold\, gold that has been fired\, not only myrrh and \nincense but also all the fragrant powders of the merchant. Indeed who else can \nabound in riches of this sort but the poor of Christ? \nBut I am not aware\, you will say\, that I have received anything of the sort\, \nor that anything so precious as gold\, incense and myrrh is to be found in my \npossession. For I am a man well acquainted with poverty\, finding it hard to beg \nmy daily bread\, leading an impoverished life. You think\, you say\, that you have \nnot received any such thing. Is it not rather that you have squandered in riotous \nliving the inheritance you received from your father? \nBut I pass over that. As the Sage says\, “One who turns away from sin to \nbecome wise is not to be reproved.” Rather I would wish that you had the energy \nto examine if there be not some slight remnant of your paternal inheritance in \nyour hands with which you could begin to recover the whole. I would wish you to \ndig within yourself\, for valuable treasures are wont to lie hidden in the recesses \nof the earth. That treasure\, the desire of which drove a man to sell all he had\, was \nhidden in a field. The ten Israelites who escaped the murderer’s sword did no by \ndeclaring that they had treasure hidden in a field. \nO what treasures of good works\, what riches of devotion lie hidden in the \nfield of one’s body; and how many more in the depths of the heart\, if only we will \ntake the trouble to dig… Our reason and natural endowments\, with the help of \ngrace\, are a seed-bed of all the virtues. If then you will ponder in your heart and \ntrain your body\, you need not doubt that you will find worthwhile treasure – if \nnot gold or incense at the very beginning\, certainly of myrrh\, and that is not \nuseless. It is not for you to describe as useless what Christ accepts as a gift. With \nthis he willed that the burial of his body should not only be foreshadowed when \nit was offered to him but also be completed when he was embalmed with it.
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