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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nWILLIAM OF ST THIERRY \n◊◊◊ \n[The Apostle Paul says that]\, if because of your food your brother is \ngrieved\, you no longer walk according to charity. Do not destroy with your \nfood him for whom Christ died. For a proper reason we should sometimes avoid \nwhat is licit\, but we are not commanded to do what is illicit for any reason. \n[He also says\,] Let our good not be spoken of as evil. What is this good of \nours? It is the good proper to Christ’s disciples\, of which he himself says\, ‘By this \nshall all men know that you are my disciples\, if you have love for one another’. \nJust as the disciples of Christ are distinguished by the sign of mutual charity\, so \nwhen charity is neglected the entire brilliance of the Christian religion seems to \nbe obscured. Then this wonderful teacher proclaims the mystery of the kingdom \nof heaven in order to restrain the faults of the present time by the authority of a \nfuture mystery\, and in order to establish the form of the Church. \n[He says]: For the kingdom of God is not food and drink. As if he said\, \n‘Why do we deal so much with food when we are hastening to the kingdom of \nheaven? For there\, just as they do not marry\, and are not given in marriage\, so \nthey neither eat nor drink\, but are like the angels of God.’ Thus\, with a most \nperfect and clear teaching the Apostle establishes that there is no need of food \nand drink in the kingdom of heaven\, but that there is justice and peace. And \nbecause fleshly joy usually accompanies food and drink\, he adds here joy\, but in \nthe Holy Spirit. \nThese things effect the kingdom of heaven in us here\, but in the future \nthey lead us where these same things are possessed more certainly and more \nfirmly. There is justice in work; peace is in the heart or conscience; joy is in the \nLord. Whoever has these things already has the kingdom of God within him. \nFor he who in this way serves Christ pleases God and is approved by \nmen. He who serves Christ in the Holy Spirit pleases God and is approved by \nmen in justice\, and he dwells harmoniously with himself in peace. \nLet us pursue the things of peace outside because of the disposition of \npeace that we enjoy within; and from a disposition for justice let us keep the \nthings that are edifying. What does justice demand more clearly than that we \nnot destroy on account of food the work of Christ’s redemption in our brothers? \nAll things are indeed clean\, but it is evil for a man to eat with offense\, because \nhe wounds the conscience of inner justice if the soul of his brother is endangered \nby that with which he refreshes himself.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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