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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nBLESSED GUERRIC OF IGNY \n◊◊◊ \nChrist is the way by which we journey to the heights\, the eternity at the \njourney’s end; he is the spotless way\, the blessed dwelling place. \nHowever\, I think that even before you reach that blessed dwelling\, if you \nhave prepared for the Lord a spotless way he will quite often deign to tread the \nway with you\, making smooth the path before you\, so that your heart may be \nenlarged and you may run in the way of his commandments. The beginning\, you \nmay say\, is strait and narrow. For wisdom walks in the way of justice\, as she \nherself says. And he that possesses justice shall lay hold of her and she will meet \nhim as a mother welcomes the son who cherishes her. She goes about seeking \nsuch as are worthy of her and she shows herself to them cheerfully in her ways \nand meets them with all prudence. \nIf you complain she seldom if ever meets you\, consider whether you have \nperhaps soiled your way. For it is written: “The foolishness of a man soils his \nway; he finds fault with God in his heart.” Yet God stands at the gate and knocks\, \nin order that if a man opens to him he may share with him the delights of the \nheavenly banquet. The spouse says: “A knock on the door\, and then my true \nlove’s voice: Let me in\, my sister\, my spouse. Open your heart to me and I will \nnourish it; open your mouth and I will fill it.” “I have opened my mouth\,” says \nDavid\, “and have drawn my breath.” \nNow the breath of our mouth is Christ the Lord. He is to be not merely \ninvited but drawn into the guest chamber of our heart by the violence of our \nprayers and the vehemence of our fervor. The gospel tells us of the two disciples \nto give us an example of this. Indeed if sometimes he makes as though he would \ngo farther\, he does so for no other reason than that he may prove the zeal of your \nlove\, just as the two angels whom Lot adored and begged to enter. They \ndissembled saying: “No\, we will remain in the street.” But what does Scripture \ntell us? “He pressed them very much to turn in unto him.” Loving violence\, by \nwhich the heavenly kingdom is borne away; matchless importunity that wins as \nguest Christ or angels.
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