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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Blessed Humbleline
DESCRIPTION:BLESSED HUMBELINE \nFrom the Life of St Bernard \n◊◊◊ \nFrom earliest childhood Humbeline and Bernard had been drawn together \nby a special bond of affection and sympathy… After her marriage\, forgetful of her \nmother’s example and exhortations\, she began to follow the fashions of the world. \nIn 1117 she came to Clairvaux surrounded with all the splendor of dress and \nattendants that unlimited wealth could bestow\, thinking\, so it seems\, that she was \ndoing her brother honor. Her brother Andrew\, the porter\, in announcing her \narrival\, did not omit to describe to his Abbot the pomp and ceremony that attended \nher. \nIt grieved Bernard to hear that his beloved sister had become a worshiper at \nthe shrine of vanity. He refused to see her himself\, nor would he allow any of his \nbrothers to see her\, but told Andrew to tell her…that with these worldly ornaments \nshe was making herself the devil’s instrument for the ruin of immortal souls. \nAndrew delivered the message\, adding on his own: “Why so much solicitude to \nembellish a body destined for worms and rottenness\, while the soul that now \nanimates it is burning in everlasting flames?” \nHumbeline burst into tears\, crying out: “I deserve it all because I am a \nsinner. Yet it is for such as I that Christ suffered on the Cross. Indeed it is because of \nmy sinfulness that I seek counsel and encouragement from the saints. If my brother \nBernard\, who is the servant of God\, despises my body\, let him at least have pity on \nmy soul. Let him come; let him command; and whatever he thinks proper to enjoin \nI am prepared to carry out.” There was no resisting such an appeal. Bernard and \nhis brothers hastened to meet her and to confirm her in these good dispositions. \nIt was the holy Abbot’s desire that she should enter religion; but as this was \nunlawful without her husband’s consent\, he recommended her to live as much as \npossible like a recluse in the world\, shunning ostentation and all kinds of vanity\, \nand devoting herself\, after her mother’s example\, to the service of God and the \npoor. She promised to do so. \nFive years later\, in 1122\, having obtained after much resistance her \nhusband’s consent\, she left the world altogether and entered the convent of Jully \nwhere Elizabeth\, her sister-in-law\, was superioress. When the latter went forth \nabout 1130 to found a new convent in the neighborhood of Dijon\, Humbeline was \nappointed to succeed her. Under her direction the house flourished greatly; the \nnoblest ladies of the land sought admission in such numbers that she was forced to \nmake about a dozen new foundations. She rivaled Bernard himself in her love of \nthe Cross. Of food and sleep she allowed herself much less than the minimum \nwhich nature demands; her clothes were the meanest she could find\, and it was her \nhappiness to be employed in the humblest occupations. When her nuns begged her \nto be more careful of her health\, which seemed in danger of breaking down under \nsuch austere practices\, she replied: “For you\, my dear sisters\, whose lives have been \nconsecrated to the service of God\, this is an excellent counsel. But for me\, who have \nlived so long amidst worldly vanities\, no kind of penance can be excessive.”… \nHer last hours were consoled by the presence of three of her brothers\, \nBernard\, Andrew and Nivard… When about to breathe her last she looked with a \nradiant smile at Bernard and said: “Oh\, how happy I am to have followed your \ncounsel and consecrated myself to God! And what a beautiful reward I expect to \nreceive for the love I have entertained for you in this life!”… With these words\, she \ngave up her spirit.
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