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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:OF TOMBS AND GARDENS \nFrom the writing of Blessed Guerric of Igny \n◊◊◊ \nWhose voice is fittingly heard in the assembly of brethren and friends\, \nthat is\, in the Church of the saints\, the Bridegroom himself indicates when he \nsays: “You who dwell in the gardens\, friends are listening; let me hear your \nvoice.” \nIt is not I to whom this should be said; I am not one who dwells in gardens \n—I seem to myself rather to be of those who dwell in tombs. For what are the \nbodies of sinners but tombs of the dead. Therefore they who are devoted to their \nbodies dwell not in gardens\, but in tombs and exasperate God until he who leads \nforth prisoners in strength cries with a loud voice: “Lazarus\, come forth”; and he \ngives his disciples the command: “Loose him and let him go free.” \nTo be sure there is a great difference between tombs and gardens. The \nformer are full of every filth and of dead men’s bones\, the latter are full of \nflowers or fruits in all their sweetness and grace. What if tombs are sometimes \nseen in gardens – for the Lord was buried in a garden? \nIf there are tombs in a garden surely there are not gardens in tombs. Yet \nperhaps there are\, but in the tombs of the just. There indeed a certain most \nagreeable pleasantness which belongs to gardens will flourish as in spring\, the \nspringtime\, that is\, of their resurrection when their flesh will blossom again. \nNot only the bones of the just man will sprout like grass\, but also the whole of the \njust man will sprout like a lily and bloom forever before the Lord. \nNot so the godless\, not so. They are buried with the burial of an ass. \nWithout any hope of a better resurrection\, they are subject to corruption\, as a \nforetaste of their future fate. Concerning their tombs I had begun to say that as \ngreat as is the difference between their filth and the beauty of gardens in flower\, \nincomparably greater is the difference between the delight of spiritual men and \nthe pleasure of carnal joys. \nIt is you then\, if I am not mistaken\, who dwell in gardens\, you who \nmeditate on the law of the Lord day and night” and walk about in as many \ngardens as you read books\, pick as many apples as you select fine thoughts. And \nblessed are you for whom all the apples\, both old and new\, are kept\, that is\, for \nwhom the words of the prophets\, evangelists and Apostles are laid up\, so that to \neach of you those words of the Bride to the Bridegroom seem to be said: “All the \napples\, new and old\, my Beloved\, I have kept for you.”
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