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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nWILLIAM OF ST THIERRY \n◊◊◊ \nNow we on our part hold you dear by the affection of Love which you have \nimplanted in us. But how is it with you? Do you\, the Creator of all things\, both of \nthe good dispositions and of souls that are to be affected by them\, do you love \nthose whom you do love by some extraneous\, incidental activity? And are you\, \nthe Maker of all people and all things\, in some way\, in some respect\, affected in \nso doing? It is unthinkable! It would be ridiculous and contrary to faith to \nimpute such a thing to the Creator of all! \nWell\, then\, how do you love us\, if you do not love us with love? But\, O you \nwho are the One supremely good and the ultimate Goodness\, your love is your \ngoodness\, the Holy spirit proceeding from the father and the Son! From the \nbeginning of creation he has been borne upon the waters – on the tossing souls \nof mortals\, that is – offering himself to all\, drawing all to himself. And by \nbreathing into and upon them\, by warding off things harmful and supplying \nthings useful\, he unites God to us and us to God. Your Holy Spirit\, who is called \nthe Love\, and the Unity\, and the Will of the Father and the Son\, dwells in us by \nhis grace and implants in us the charity of God; and through that charity he \nreconciles God to us. And thus he unites us to God through the good will that he \nbreathes into us. And with us this vehement good will goes by the name of love\, \nby which we love what we ought to love\, namely you. For love is nothing other \nthan a vehement\, well-ordered will… \nWe first hoped\, because we knew your name\, O Lord; we gloried in you as \nLord and loved the name of the Lord in you. But now\, through the grace \ninbreathed into us by the Spirit of your adoption\, we have confidence that all \nthat the father has is ours also. So\, through the grace of adoption\, we invoke you \nnow under the same name as your only Son invokes you by right of nature. But \nbecause all this derives exclusively from you\, O sovereign Father of lights\, for \nwhom to love is to do good and from whom comes every good endowment and \nevery perfect gift\, you\, I say\, love yourself in us\, and us in yourself\, when we love \nyou through you. \nWe are…God’s offspring\, we\, all of us\, are gods and children of the Most \nHigh through a kind of spiritual kinship. We claim for ourselves a closer \nrelationship with you\, because through the Spirit of adoption your Son does not \nscorn to be known by the same name as we\, and because with and by him\, taught \nby saving precepts and schooled by God’s ordinance\, we are bold to say: “Our \nFather\, who art in heaven.”
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nCARDINAL JEAN DANIELOU \n◊◊◊ \nThe Christian Life is altogether an act of waiting. Christians know that \nthey are made for greater things. They feel acutely the misery of their present \ncondition. They aspire to be relieved of the weight of animal life and its \nservitude. “I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ”. While the carnal in us \ngrasps desperately at pleasures and possessions\, the Christian lives already in \nthe order of being\, detached\, free\, making use of time\, so long as it is given\, to \nperform works of charity towards all – an activity invisible to the eyes of the \nworld. The Christian life is a hidden life. \nBut when the world is folded up like a tent\, the reality that has been \nhidden until that moment will be clearly revealed. It is to prepare oneself for this \nsolemn act\, which is the entry of every person into the heavenly Temple\, \nthrough the veil that still conceals it\, that one’s whole life must be devoted. \nThat life consists for the Christian in being endowed little by little with \ndivine manners. And the education that proceeds till the hour of death – for all \nlife is only an adolescence – consists\, as Jean Guitton says\, “in that discipline by \nwhich we prepare the child for temporal life\, the adult for eternal life\, so that \nwhatever we see\, we feel we have seen it already.” We must not be without a \ncountry on our arrival in heaven. Our life is an apprenticeship. It is a matter of \nlearning the rudiments of what we shall have one day to do. \nSo let us already try in prayer to stammer what will later be the \n‘conversation in heaven’ with God and his angels; so we must try to make less \ncrude this intellect of ours\, which is so immersed in the world of time and space\, \nand to acclimatize it gradually to heavenly things through the action of the gifts \nof the Holy Spirit. Thus charity itself is the clumsy beginning of that complete \ncommunion which will embrace all the saints. So doing\, we begin to do what we \nhave always to do. It is our real life which is being mapped out. Let us begin it.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Peter Tarentaise
DESCRIPTION:A reading from Butler’s Lives of the Saints on \nST PETER OF TARENTAISE \n◊◊◊ \nSt Peter of Tarentaise was born near Vienne in the French province of the \nDauphine. He early displayed a remarkable memory\, coupled with great \ninclination for religious studies\, and at the age of twenty he entered the abbey of \nBonnevaux. After a time\, his father and the other two sons followed Peter to \nBonnevaux\, while his mother\, with the only daughter\, entered a neighboring \nnunnery. \nHe was not quite thirty when he was chosen superior of a new house built \nat Tamie\, in the desert mountains of Tarentaise. It over looked the pass which \nwas then the chief route from Geneva to Savoy\, and the monks were able to be of \ngreat use to travelers. There\, with the help of Amadeus III\, Count of Savoy\, who \nheld him in high esteem\, he founded a hospice for the sick and for strangers\, in \nwhich he was wont to wait upon his guests with his own hands. \nIn 1142 came his election to the archbishopric of Tarentaise\, and Peter \nwas compelled by St Bernard and the general chapter of his order\, though much \nagainst the grain\, to accept the office. He found the diocese in a deplorable state\, \ndue mainly to the mismanagement of his predecessor\, an unworthy man who \nhad eventually to be deposed. In place of the cathedral clergy whom he found lax \nand careless; St Peter substituted canons regular of St Augustine. He undertook \nthe constant visitation of his diocese; recovered property which had been \nalienated; appointed good priests to various parishes; made excellent \nfoundations for the education of the young and relief of the poor; and \neverywhere provided for the due celebration of the services of the Church.. \nIn 1155\, after he had administered the diocese for thirteen years\, Peter \nsuddenly disappeared. Actually\, he had made his way to a remote Cistercian \nabbey in Switzerland\, where\, he was accepted as a lay-brother. Not until a year \nlater was he discovered. His identity having been revealed to his new superiors\, \nPeter was obliged to leave and return to his see\, where he was greeted with great \njoy. He took up his duties more zealously than ever. He rebuilt the hospice of the \nLittle St Bernard and founded other similar refuges for travelers in the Alps… \nIt was not granted to the saint to die among his mountain flock. His \nreputation as a peacemaker led Alexander III to send him in 1174 to try effect a \nreconciliation between King Louis VII of France and Henry II of England. St \nPeter\, though he was old\, set out at once\, preaching everywhere on his way. As \nhe approached Chaumont in the Vexin\, where the French court was being held\, \nhe was met by King Louis and by Prince Henry\, the rebellious heir to the English \nthrone. The latter\, alighting from his horse to receive the archbishop’s blessing\, \nasked for the saint’s old cloak\, which he reverently kissed. \nBoth at Chaumont and at Gisors where he interviewed the English king\, St \nPeter was treated with utmost honor\, but the reconciliation for which he labored \ndid not take place until after his death. As he was returning to his diocese he was \ntaken ill on the road near Besançon\, and died as he was being carried into the \nabbey of Bellevaux. This St Peter was canonized in 1191.
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