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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:BEING PLACED INSIDE \nGOD’S GRANDEUR \nBy St Teresa of Avila \n◊◊◊ \nYou must have already heard about God’s marvels manifested in the way \nsilk originates. The silkworms come from seeds about the size of little grains of \npepper… When the warm weather comes and the leaves begin to appear on the \nmulberry tree\, the seeds start to live\, for they are dead until then. The worms \nnourish themselves on the mulberry leaves until\, having grown to full size\, they \nsettle on some twigs. There with their little mouths they themselves go about \nspinning the silk and making some very thick little cocoons in which they \nenclose themselves. The silkworm\, which is fat and ugly\, then dies\, and a little \nwhite butterfly\, which is very pretty\, comes forth from the cocoon. \nNow if this were not seen but recounted to us as having happened in other \ntimes\, who would believe it? Or what reasoning could make us conclude that a \nthing as nonrational as a worm or bee could be so diligent in working for our \nbenefit and with so much industriousness? And the poor little worm loses its life \nin the challenge. Well\, once this silkworm is grown\, it begins to spin the silk and \nbuild the house wherein it will die. I would like to point out here that this house \nis Christ. \nTherefore\, courage! Let’s be quick to do this work and weave this little \ncocoon by taking away our self-love and self-will\, our attachment to any earthly \nthing\, and by performing deeds of penance\, prayer\, mortification\, obedience\, \nand of all the other things you know. Would to heaven that we would do what we \nknow we must; and we are instructed about what we must do. Let it die; let this \nsilkworm die\, as it does in completing what it was created to do! And you will see \nhow we see God\, as well as ourselves placed inside God’s grandeur\, as is this \nlittle silkworm within its cocoon. \nOh\, now\, to see the restlessness of this little butterfly\, even though it has \nnever been quieter and calmer in its life\, is something to praise God for! And the \ndifficulty is that it doesn’t know where to alight and rest. Since it has \nexperienced such wonderful rest\, all that is sees on earth displaces it\, especially \nif God gives it this wine often. Almost each time it gains new treasures. It no \nlonger has any esteem for the works it did while a worm\, which was to weave the \ncocoon little by little; it now has wings. How can it be happy walking step by step \nwhen it can fly?
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