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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE LIFTING UP \nOF HIS HANDS \nFrom a sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx \n◊◊◊ \nWe read in the Old Testament that\, after the people of Israel left Egypt \nwith Moses at their head\, the Amalekites\, a savage race\, came and did battle \nagainst them. Moses sent an army against them\, while he himself went up on to \na mountain to pray for them and raised his hands to the Lord. And it came to \npass that while he kept his hands raised\, the people of Israel were triumphant \nbut whenever he lowered his hands Amalek started to win. Why was it\, do you \nthink\, that the raising of his hands possessed such grace? Without doubt God \nusually takes more account of the attachments of the mind than of the postures \nof the body. \nWhy was it then? Did his prayer have no effect before God unless he raised \nhis hands? That lifting up of his hands had such an effect that their enemies \ncould not withstand the Israelites. The reason why this lifting up of hands had \nsuch force was that it signified the raising of the hands of him who said in the \npsalm\, The lifting up of my hands is like an evening sacrifice. For\, when evening \nhad already come upon the world\, his sweetest hands were stretched out on the \nCross and there was offered up that evening sacrifice that took away the sins of \nthe whole world. \nSo that raising of Moses’ hands signified the Passion of our Lord Jesus \nChrist who went up on to a mountain to pray because he ascended into heaven \nto plead our cause with the Father. There he lifts up his hands so that Amalek – \nthat is\, the devil – will not be able to vanquish us. For there he appears in God’s \nsight on our behalf and represents to him the Passion that he underwent for us. \nAs for us\, brothers\, as long as we are in this wretched life which is a trial \nupon earth\, as long as our fight is against the principalities and powers\, \nagainst the rulers of the dark things of the world\, against the spiritual \nforces of evil in the heavens\, we need to have our Lord lifting up his hands \nwithin us – that is to say\, the remembrance of his Passion should be continually \npresent in our minds. We can be quite sure\, my brothers\, that as long as the \nmemory of his Passion is in our heart\, as long as our hope is directed to where C \nhrist is pleading our cause at the right hand of the Father\, the spiritual \nAmalek – that is\, the devil – will not be able to vanquish us. \nAnd therefore\, my brothers\, let us see that this attachment\, this \nremembrance\, does not through some negligence on our part grow lukewarm in \nus. For then we shall immediately grow faint and our enemy will gain the upper \nhand and cause us distress.
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