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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:EVERYTHING WILL BEGIN AGAIN \nBy Marie Noël \n◊◊◊ \nThe way of all humanity traces a circle…. \nThe path that we took when we came naked into the world and which we \nclimbed from year to year until we came to the middle of our life — on that same \npath we will go down again to return\, naked\, to the place of departure. \nLittle by little we grew\, and raised our stature above the earth; little by \nlittle we will shrink and become bent down towards the earth. \nLittle by little we opened our senses\, hearing\, sight and all the others\, like \nwindows in the morning; little by little\, one after the other\, we will close them \nagain like windows in the evening. \nLittle by little\, every day\, we stored up all kinds of knowledge in our \nmemory; they will daily escape from our memory a little later on. \nA little later\, day by day\, our arms became strong\, our hands skilled\, our \ntongues able\, and rich in words; our arms will become weak\, our hands clumsy\, \nour tongues poor and stammering\, day by day\, a little later on. \nOne day\, we learned to speak; one day\, we will not be able to speak. One \nday we came down from our mother’s arms and walked by ourself; one day we \nwill stop walking by ourself and will lean on [another’s] arm. \nOne day we had not yet left our cradle and a woman took us up from time \nto time to nurse us and change our clothes; one day we will not leave our bed \nagain and a [another] will come from time to time to wash us and give us drinks. \nOne day\, for the first time\, we opened our eyes and saw; one day\, for the \nlast time\, we will shut our eyes and see no more. \nOne day\, for the first time\, we inhaled the air of this world and were born; \none day\, for the last time\, we will exhale the air of this world and die. \nOne day\, before all these days\, we spent long months in the darkness of \nour mother to form our bones and flesh and compose our bodies; one day\, after \nall these days\, we will spend long months in the darkness of the earth to \ndecompose our bodies and unmake our flesh and bones. \nOne day\, before all these days\, we came out of our father as a little seed of \nlife; one day\, after all these days\, we will re-enter the Father of fathers to be \nbegotten anew in eternal life. \nAnd everything\, in a new Being\, will begin again.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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