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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Gregory the Great
DESCRIPTION:TELL THE BRETHREN \nFrom the treatise “Pastoral Care” by St Gregory the Great \n◊◊◊ \nThere are those who are gifted with virtues in a high degree and who are \nexalted by great endowments for the training of others; men who are unspotted \nin their zeal for chastity\, strong in the vigor of their abstinence\, replete with \nfeasts of knowledge\, humble in their long-suffering patience\, erect in the \nfortitude of authority\, gentle in the grace of loving-kindness\, strict and \nunbending in justice. Such\, indeed in declining to undertake supreme rule when \ninvited to do so\, deprive themselves\, for the most part\, of the gifts which they \nhave received not for their own sakes only\, but for the sake of others also. \nWhen these regard their own personal advantage\, not that of others\, they \nlose such advantages in wishing to retain them for themselves\, Hence it was that \nthe Truth said to the disciples: “A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid\, \nneither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel\, but upon a candlestick\, \nthat it may shine to all that are in the house”. \n[For this reason] He said to Peter\, “Simon\, son of John\, do you love me?” \nAnd when Simon replied at once that he loved Him\, he was told: “If you love \nme\, feed my sheep”. If\, then\, the care of feeding is a testimony of love\, he who\, \nabounding in virtues\, refuses to feed the flock of God\, is convicted of having no \nlove for the Supreme Shepherd. [It is because of this that] Paul says: “If Christ \ndied for all\, then all were dead. And if He died for all\, it remains that they also \nwho live\, may not now live only for themselves\, but for Him who died for them \nand rose again”. Thus\, Moses says that the surviving brother must take the wife \nof his brother who died without children\, and raise up children for his brother’s \nname; and should he refuse to take her\, she shall spit in his face…9 \nNow\, the deceased brother is [the Lord] who\, appearing after the glory of \nthe Resurrection\, said: “Go\, tell my brethren;” for He died\, as it were\, without \nsons\, because He had not yet filled up the number of the elect. The surviving \nbrother is ordered to take the wife\, because it is fitting that the care of Holy \n[Mother] Church should be assigned to him who is best fitted to rule it well. If he \nproves unwilling\, the woman spits in his face\, because\, whosoever does not care \nto assist others by the favors which he has received\, is reprobated by Holy \nChurch also for the good he has\, and as it were\, she casts spittle in his face…. \nSo\, there are those who\, endowed\, as we have said\, with great gifts\, in \ntheir eagerness for the pursuit of contemplation only\, decline to be of service to \nthe neighbor by preaching; they love to withdraw in quietude and desire to be \nalone for meditation. Now\, if they are judged strictly on their conduct\, they are \ncertainly guilty in proportion to the public service which they were able to \nafford. Indeed\, what disposition of mind is revealed in him\, who could perform \nconspicuous public benefit on coming to his task\, but prefers his own privacy to \nthe benefit of others\, seeing that the Only-Begotten of the Supreme Father came \nforth from the bosom of His Father into our midst\, that He might benefit many?
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