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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “On Contemplating God” by \nWILLIAM OF ST THIERRY \n◊◊◊ \nMay all unrighteousness take its departure from my soul\, that I may love \nthe Lord my God with all my heart\, and with all my soul\, and with all my \nstrength! Let all jealousy depart from me\, lest I should love anything along with \nyou that I do not love for your sake\, true Lord and only Love! For when I love \nanything for your sake\, I love not it\, but you for whose sake I love that which I \nlove. For you truly only are the Lord. To be ruled by you is for us salvation. For \nus to serve you is nothing else but to be saved by you! \nNow how is it we are saved by you\, O Lord\, from whom salvation comes \nand whose blessing is upon your people\, if it is not in receiving from you the gift \nof loving you and being loved by you? That\, Lord\, is why you willed that the Son \nof your right hand\, the Man whom you made strong for your own self\, should be \ncalled Jesus\, that is to say\, Savior\, for he will save his people from their sins. \nThere is no other in whom is salvation except him who taught us to love himself \nwhen he first loved us\, even to death on the cross. By loving and holding us so \ndear he stirred us up to love himself\, who first had loved us to the end. This is the \nrighteousness of the sons of men: “Love me\, for I love you.” \nOne seldom meets a person who can say: “I love you\, in order that you \nmay love me!” But\, as the servant of your love proclaims and preaches\, you who \nfirst loved us did this\, precisely this. You first loved us so that we might love you. \nAnd that was not because you needed to be loved by us\, but because we could \nnot be what you created us to be\, except by loving you. \nHaving then in many ways and on various occasions spoken to the fathers \nby the prophets\, now in these last days you have spoken to us in the Son\, your \nWord\, by whom the heavens were established\, and all the power of them by the \nbreath of his mouth. For you to speak thus in your Son was an open declaration\, \na “setting in the sun” as it were\, of how much and in what sort of way you loved \nus\, in that you spared not your own Son\, but delivered him up for us all. Yes\, and \nhe himself loved us and gave himself for us. \nThis\, Lord\, is your word to us\, this is your all-powerful message: he who\, \nwhile all things kept silence (that is\, were in the depths of error)\, came from the \nroyal throne\, the stern opponent of error and the gentle apostle of love. And \neverything he did and everything he said on earth\, even the insults\, the spitting\, \nthe buffeting\, the cross and the grave\, all that was nothing but yourself speaking \nin the Son\, appealing to us by your love and stirring up our love for you… \nSitting upon your throne and judging righteous judgment\, you judge the \nrighteousness that you yourself have made. Thus will every mouth be shut\, and \nthe whole world be made subject to God\, when you have pity on him on whom \nyou will have pity\, and extend mercy to him to whom you will be merciful. We \ncould not with justice have been saved\, had we not loved you\, nor could we have \nloved you\, save by your gift. You willed\, therefore\, that we should love you. So\, \nLord\, as the Apostle of your love tells us\, and as we ourselves have said before\, \nyou “first loved us”; and you love all your lovers first.
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