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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Gethsemani Church
DESCRIPTION:THE DEDICATION OF OUR CHURCH \nFrom a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux \n◊◊◊ \nMy brethren\, we ought to observe today’s festivity all the more devoutly \nfor the reason that it is so peculiarly our own. All the other sacred solemnities \nwhich we keep are common to us with the faithful in general. But this is so \nproper to ourselves that if we do not keep it\, it will not be kept at all. It is our own \nfeast\, because it is the feast of the dedication of our own church. It is still more \nour own because it is the feast of our own selves. For what of sanctity can belong \nto these dead walls which cause them to be honored with a religious solemnity? \nThey are undoubtedly holy\, but it is because of your bodies. Will anyone \nquestion that your bodies are holy\, since they are “the temples of the Holy \nSpirit”? \nConsequently your souls are sanctified because of the spirit of God “Who \nis in you”\, your bodies are sanctified because of your souls\, and this house is \nsanctified also because of your bodies. The Psalmist prayed “Preserve my soul \nfor I am holy”. Truly “God is wonderful in His saints”\, not alone in His saints in \nheaven\, but also those on earth. For He has His saints in both places and shows \nHimself wonderful in them all\, beatifying those above\, consummating the \nsanctity of those below. \nAccordingly it is your own festival\, dearest brethren\, your very own\, that \nyou are celebrating today. You have been dedicated to the Lord and the Lord has \nchosen and adopted you as His own peculiar people. Oh\, how wisely you have \nacted…in renouncing all that you might have possessed in this world\, since by \ndoing so you have deserved to become the peculiar people of the world’s \nCreator\, and to have Him as your special possession\, for He is undoubtedly “the \nportion and inheritance” of His own! \nSee\, therefore\, if it is not right to observe as a festival the day on which the \nLord adopted us as His own and took formal possession of us through His \nministers\, thus accomplishing in fact what He had promised long ago\, saying\, “I \nin the midst of them shall be their God”\, while we should be “the people of His \npasture and the sheep of His hand”. For when this house was consecrated to the \nLord by the ministry of the Bishop\, it was manifestly for our sake it was done; \nnot only for the sake of those who were actually present then\, but also for the \nsake of all those who until the end of time shall serve God in this holy place. \nTherefore\, dearest brethren\, it is necessary that what has already been \naccomplished in the walls in a visible manner should be invisibly accomplished \nin ourselves.
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