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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Vincent de Paul
DESCRIPTION:ST VINCENT DE PAUL \nFrom the writing of John P McGowan \n◊◊◊ \nSt Vincent de Paul has been proclaimed the “Universal Patron of Charity.” \nIf the changes which he effected in the domain of charity were so radical as to \nmerit him this title\, then we are forced to conclude that the ideas that moved \nhim were equally as radical. [In this\,] he has contributed much to what has been \ncalled the devotional revolution of the Counter-Reformation—the renewed \nveneration for the Incarnate Word… \nWhen the Saint arrived in Paris in 1608\, after his varied and adventurous \ncareer\, he was twenty-eight. Almost immediately\, he placed himself under the \ndirection of Father\, later Cardinal\, de Bérulle\, an eminent ecclesiastic to whom \nall the priests of Paris who aspired to a higher degree of perfection instinctively \nturned for guidance… De Bérulle maintained that God is the center about which \nall religious life should turn. \nSpiritual thought had for too long a time preferred to adopt the… \n“reformation of self”— the planting of virtues and the uprooting of vices —as the \nend of perfection. This made for preoccupation with self and led to an \nexaggerated individualism. De Bérulle restored the virtue of religion to its pre- \neminent place by laying down as the cornerstone of his doctrine the principle \nthat the greatness and majesty of God must be recognized before everything \nelse\, even one’s salvation… \nThe second principle of this doctrine is that God can only be fittingly \nworshiped in the Incarnate Word. The center and bond of all is Christ\, God like \nthe Father\, and Man like ourselves\, Who united heaven and earth in Himself\, \nand Who is Himself our Religion. Christ is the great Adorer\, the great Sacrificer\, \nthe great High Priest. [What St Vincent did for this doctrine] was reaffirm the \nsocial implications of perfection by insisting that God must be loved in Christ \nand that Christ must be loved in all people\, and all people [must be loved] in \nHim… \nTo “put on the Spirit of Christ” is in the eyes of St Vincent the primary\, \nsovereign and all-embracing means of realizing this end. It serves as a guiding \nprinciple by which one can acquire the “Mind of Christ.” St Vincent sees the one \nwho has put on the “Spirit of Christ” as a christ who will do the work of Christ… \nHe never tires of teaching that Christ is the Master Whose lessons must be \nlearned by all who would follow Him… \n[St Vincent himself says:] “Our vocation is…to go\, not into one parish\, or \ninto one province only\, but through the entire earth. For what purpose? To \ninfluence the hearts of all\, to do what the Son of God has done; He\, Who came to \ncast fire on this earth and to overspread it with the flame of His love; what have \nwe to desire unless His love should burn and consume all?… It is not enough \nthat I love God\, if my neighbor does not also love Him… I ought to love my \nneighbor [in order to] cause them to love their most lovable Creator\, that by a \nreturn of love they may be inflamed with love of God\, who has so loved them as \nto deliver His own Son to death for their salvation. This is my obligation.”
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