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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:GLORIFY THE LORD \nFrom the Catechetical Lectures of St Cyril of Jerusalem \n◊◊◊ \n“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”; for in the \nthought of God\, let the thought of Father be included\, so that the glory we \nascribe to the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit may be perfectly free from \ndifference. For the Father has one glory and the Son another\, but their glory is \none and the same; since the Son is the Father’s sole-begotten\, and when the \nFather is glorified the Son shares in enjoyment of His glory… And whenever the \nSon is glorified the Father of so excellent a Son is greatly honored. \nNow the mind thinks with great rapidity\, but the tongue needs \nexpressions and a long outpouring of words before it reaches a conclusion. For \nin one instant\, the eye takes in a vast multitude of stars\, but if anyone should \nwant to discourse on any particular stars…he will need to say a good deal. Again \nin like manner the mind comprehends earth and sea and all the bounds of the \nworld in a flash\, but it takes many words to express what it understands in an \ninstant… \nWhat we say about God is not what should be said (for that is known only \nto Him) but only what human nature takes in\, and only what our infirmity can \nbear. For what we expound is not what God is… We have no sure knowledge \nabout Him… Our chief theological knowledge is confessing that we have none. \nTherefore\, “magnify the Lord with me\, and let us exalt His Name together”… \nNow if the heavens and all they contain cannot worthily sing the praises of \nGod\, how possibly can earth and ashes\, the least and slightest of existing things\, \nraise a worthy hymn to God\, “who holds in His hand the circle of the earth\, and \nconsiders the inhabitants of it as grasshoppers.” If anyone would attempt to \ndiscourse on God\, let them first expound what are the bounds of the earth. The \nearth is your dwelling\, and yet you do not know the extent of your dwellingplace\, \nearth! How then can you have any adequate thoughts of its Creator? \nBut someone will ask: If the divine Being is incomprehensible\, what is the \ngood of the things you have been saying? Come now\, am I not to take a \nreasonable drink because I cannot drink the river dry? Or supposing I were to go \ninto a huge garden where I could not possibly eat all the fruit on the trees\, would \nyou have me leave it still hungry? I praise and glorify our Maker\, seeing that “Let \neverything that breathes praise the Lord” is a divine command. I am now trying \nto glorify the Master\, not to expound His Nature\, for I know quite well that I \nshall fall far short even of glorifying Him as He deserves. Nevertheless I hold it \nto be a religious duty at least to make the attempt. For the Lord Jesus comforts \nme for my insufficiency by saying “No one has seen God at any time.”
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