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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nBLESSED GUERRIC OF IGNY \n◊◊◊ \nSearch the Scriptures then. For you are not mistaken in thinking that you \nfind life in them\, you who seek nothing else in them but Christ\, to whom the \nScriptures bear witness. Blessed indeed are they who search his testimonies\, \nseek them out with all their heart.” Your testimonies are wonderful\, Lord\, \ntherefore my soul has searched them. There is need for searching not only in \norder to draw out the mystical sense but also to taste the moral sense. Therefore \nyou who walk about in the gardens of the Scriptures do not pass by heedlessly \nand idly but searching each and every word like busy bees gathering honey from \nflowers\, reap the Spirit from the words. “For my Spirit\,” says Jesus\, “is sweeter \nthan honey and my inheritance surpasses the honeycomb.” So\, proving by \nexperience that hidden manna is savory\, you will break forth into those words of \nDavid: “How sweet to my mouth are your words\, sweeter than honey and the \nhoneycomb to my palate. \nFrom these gardens the Bridegroom will lead you\, if I be not mistaken\, \ninto others where rest is more hidden and enjoyment more blessed and beauty \nmore wonderful. When you are absorbed in his praises with accents of \nexultation and thanksgiving\, he will take you into his wonderful tenting place\, \ninto the very house of God\, into the unapproachable light in which he dwells\, \nwhere he feeds\, where he lies down at midday. For if the devotion of those who \nsing psalms or pray has something of that loving curiosity of the disciples who \nasked: “Rabbi\, where do you dwell?” they deserve\, I think\, to hear: “Come and \nsee.”… \nAs long as we are with the Father of lights\, with whom there can be no \nchange\, no swerving from his course\, we know nothing of night\, we enjoy a \nblessed daylight. When we fall thence\, we relapse into our own darkness. Woe is \nme: how quickly my days have passed away\, how quickly I have dried up like \ngrass. As long as I was in the garden with him\, I was vigorous and flourishing \nlike God’s Paradise. With him I am a garden of delight; without him\, a place of \nhorror and utter wilderness. \nFor I think that the man who enters his garden becomes a garden himself\, \nhis soul is like a watered garden\, so that the Bridegroom says in praise of him: “A \nclosed garden is my sister\, my bride.” Are they not a garden in which there \ncomes about what the Gardener himself says to the plantation which his Father \nplanted? “Give heed to me\,” he says\, “scions of the divine stock. Burgeon like a \nrose-bush that is planted by running water. Yield the fragrance of incense. \nBlossom like the lily\, and smell sweet\, and put forth leaves for your adornment.”
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