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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Monica
DESCRIPTION:A reading from the“Confessions” of \nST AUGUSTINE \n◊◊◊ \nWe were alone\, my mother and I\, we stood leaning in a certain window \nfrom which the garden of the house we occupied at Ostia could be seen. Here in \nthis place\, removed from the crowd\, we were resting ourselves for the voyage \nafter the fatigues of a long journey. We were conversing alone\, very pleasantly \nand “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.” \nWe were in the present — and in the presence of Truth\, which God is — \ndiscussing together what is the nature of the eternal life of the saints: “What no \neye has seen\, nor ear heard\, nor the heart of man conceived…” \nWhat we said went something like this: “If to anyone the tumult of the \nflesh were silenced; and the phantoms of earth and waters and air were \nsilenced; and the poles were silent as well; indeed\, if the very soul grew silent to \nherself\, and went beyond herself by not thinking of herself; if fancies and \nimaginary revelations were silenced; if every tongue and every sign and every \ntransient thing—for actually if anyone could hear them\, all these would say\, ‘We \ndid not create ourselves\, but were created by Him who abides forever’. And if\, \nhaving uttered this\, they too should be silent\, having stirred our ears to hear \nHim who created them; and if then He alone spoke\, not through them but by \nHimself\, that we might hear His word\, not in fleshly tongue or angelic voice\, nor \nsound of thunder\, nor the obscurity of a parable\, but might hear Him\, Him for \nwhose sake we love these things—if we could hear Him without these\, as we two \nnow strained ourselves to do\, we then with rapid thought might touch on that \nEternal Wisdom which abides over all. \nAnd if this could be sustained\, and other visions of a far different kind be \ntaken away\, and this one should so ravish and absorb and envelop its beholder \nin these inward joys that his life might be eternally like that one moment of \nknowledge which we now sighed after—would not this be the reality of the \nsaying\, “Enter into the joy of your Lord”? But when shall such a thing be? Shall \nit not be “when we shall all rise again\,” and shall it not be that “we shall all be \nchanged”? \nThen my mother said\, “Son\, for myself I have no longer any pleasure in \nanything in this life. Now that my hopes in this world are satisfied\, I do not know \nwhat more I want here or why I am here. There was indeed one thing for which I \nwished to tarry a little in this life\, and that was that I might see you a Catholic \nChristian before I died. My God has answered this more than abundantly\, \ninasmuch as I see you now\, having spurned earthly felicity\, become His servant. \nWhat more am I to do here?”
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-monica-4/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Augustine
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST AUGUSTINE \n◊◊◊ \nNow this trinity of the mind is the image of God\, not because the mind \nremembers\, understands\, and loves itself\, but because it also has the power to \nremember\, understand\, and love its Maker. And in doing this it attains wisdom. \nIf it does not do this\, the memory\, understanding and love of itself is no more \nthan an act of folly. Therefore\, let the mind remember its God\, to whose image it \nwas made\, let it understand and love Him. In brief\, let it worship the uncreated \nGod who created it with the capacity for himself\, and in whom it can be made \npartaker. Hence it is written: “Behold\, the worship of God is wisdom“. \nBy participating in that supreme Light\, wisdom will belong to the mind \nnot by its own light\, and it will reign in bliss only where the eternal Light is. The \nwisdom is so called human wisdom as to be also that of God. If wisdom were \nonly human\, it would be vain\, for only God’s wisdom is true wisdom. Yet when \nwe call it God’s wisdom\, we do not mean the wisdom by which God is wise: He is \nnot wise by partaking in himself as the mind is wise by partaking in God. It is \nmore like speaking of the justice of God not only to mean that God is just but to \nmean the justice he gives to us when he “justifies the ungodly“: to which the \nApostle alludes when speaking to those who “being ignorant of God’s justice\, \nand wanting to establish their own justice\, were not subject to the justice of \nGod”. In this way we might speak of those who\, ignorant of the wisdom of God \nand wanting to establish their own\, were not subject to the wisdom of God. \nThere is an uncreated Being who has made all other beings great and \nsmall\, certainly more excellent than everything he made\, and thus also more \nexcellent than the rational and intellectual being which we have been \ndiscussing\, namely\, the human mind\, made to the image of its Creator. And the \nBeing more excellent than all others is God. Indeed\, he is “not far from any one \nof us\,” as the Apostle says\, adding\, “for in him we live and move and have our \nbeing“. Were this said in a material sense we could understand it of our material \nworld: for in it also\, in respect to our body\, we live and move and are. The text \nshould be taken\, however\, in a more excellent and also invisible and intelligible \nway\, namely\, with respect to the mind that has been made to his image. \nIn fact\, what is there that is not in him of whom Holy Scripture says: “For \nfrom him and through him and in him are all things“? If all things are in Him\, in \nwhom except in him in whom they are can the living live or the moving more? Yet \nall are not with him in the sense in which he says “I am always with you”. Nor is he \nwith all things in the sense in which we say\, “The Lord be with you.” Our great \nmisery\, therefore\, is not to be with him without whom we cannot exist. \nUnquestionably\, we are never without him in whom we are; but if one does not \nremember him\, does not understand him or love him\, he is not with him.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-augustine-4/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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SUMMARY:Vigils reading - Martyrdom of St John the Baptist
DESCRIPTION:reading from Bede the Venerable on \nTHE MARTYRDOM OF \nST JOHN THE BAPTIST \n◊◊◊ \nAs a forerunner of our Lord’s birth\, preaching and death\, John showed in \nhis struggle a goodness worthy of the sight of heaven. In the words of Scripture: \n“Though in the sight of men he suffered torments\, his hope is full of \nimmortality.” We justly commemorate the day of his birth with a joyful \ncelebration\, a day which he himself made festive for us through his suffering \nand which he adorned with the crimson splendor of his own blood. We do \nrightly revere his memory with joyful hearts\, for he stamped with the seal of \nmartyrdom the testimony which he delivered on behalf of our Lord. \nThere is no doubt that blessed John suffered imprisonment and chains as \na witness to our Redeemer\, whose forerunner he was\, and gave his life for him. \nHis persecutor had demanded not that he deny Christ\, but only that he should \nkeep silent about the truth. Nevertheless\, he died for Christ. Does Christ not say: \n“I am the truth?” Therefore\, because John shed his blood for the truth\, he surely \ndied for Christ. Through his birth\, preaching and baptizing\, he bore witness to \nthe coming birth\, preaching and baptism of Christ\, and by his own suffering he \nshowed that Christ also would suffer. \nSuch was the quality and strength of the man who accepted the end of this \npresent life by shedding his blood after the long imprisonment. He preached the \nfreedom of heavenly peace\, yet was thrown into irons by ungodly men; he was \nlocked away in the darkness of prison\, though he came bearing witness to the \nLight of life and deserved to be called a bright and shining lamp by that Light \nitself\, which is Christ. John was baptized in his own blood\, though he had been \nprivileged to baptize the Redeemer of the world\, to hear the voice of the Father \nabove him\, and to see the grace of the Holy spirit descending upon him. But to \nendure temporal agonies for the sake of the truth was not a heavy burden for \nsuch men as John; rather it was easily borne and even desirable\, for he knew \neternal joy would be his reward. \nSince death was ever near at hand through the inescapable necessity of \nnature\, such men considered it a blessing to embrace it and thus gain the reward \nof eternal life by acknowledging Christ’s name. Hence the apostle Paul rightly \nsays: “You have been granted the privilege not only to believe in Christ but also \nto suffer for his sake.” He tells us why it is Christ’s gift that his chosen ones \nshould suffer for him: “The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be \ncompared with the glory that is to be revealed in us.”
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-martyrdom-of-st-john-the-baptist-3/
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