{"id":3376,"date":"2008-10-03T08:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T08:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/ut-gaudium-meum-in-vobis-sit\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T08:31:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T08:31:26","slug":"ut-gaudium-meum-in-vobis-sit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/ut-gaudium-meum-in-vobis-sit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ut gaudium meum in vobis sit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marmion<\/a><\/span>
\nAt Today’s Second Nocturn<\/strong>
\nThis is what I read at the Second Nocturn of Matins this morning. It is a good example of what gives the writings of Blessed Abbot Marmion their distinctive unction. They have a comforting, penetrating quality that comes from His extensive use and repetition of the words of Sacred Scripture. In this brief passage of less than two pages, he quotes Sacred Scripture eleven times. Abbot Marmion had the habit of giving the same text twice, once in English (or French), and then in Latin, the language of the sacred liturgy in which the Word of God came to him by dint of repetition in the Mass and Divine Office.<\/em>
\nMarmion and the Year of Saint Paul<\/strong>
\nAbbot Marmion is a worthy companion for this Year of Saint Paul. He, more than any other popular spiritual writer of the last century, made the teachings of Saint Paul come to life for his readers. Not surprisingly, Saint Paul and Saint John are the two biblical sources that appear most frequently in his writings; the Abbot knew them practically by heart.<\/em>
\nA Reading from Christ in His Mysteries<\/u> by the Blessed Columba Marmion, O.S.B.<\/strong>
\nLet us remain faithful to Jesus in spite of everything.
\nWe have heard that He is the Son of God, equal to God;
\nHis words do not pass away: He is the Eternal Word.
\nNow, He affirms that he that follows Him shall have the “light of life”:
\nHabebit lumen vitae <\/em>(Jn 8, 12).
\nHappy the soul that listens to Him, and Him only,
\nand listens always, without doubting His word,
\nwithout being shaken by the blasphemies of His enemies,
\nwithout being overcome by temptation or cast down by trial!
\nWe know not, says Saint Paul, what a weight of glory is laid up for us
\nin return for the least suffering borne in union with Christ Jesus (cf. 2 Cor 4, 17).
\n“God is faithful” (1 Cor 1, 9; 10, 13, 2 Thess 3, 2);
\nand in all the vicissitudes through which a soul passes,
\nGod infallibly leads her to this transformation
\nwhich makes her like unto His Son.
\nThus our transformation into Jesus is inwardly brought about,
\nlittle by little, until the day comes when the soul will appear radiant
\nin that company of the elect who bear the mark of the Lamb,
\nthose whom the Lamb transfigures because they are His own.
\nOur Lord Himself promised this to us.
\n“The world shall rejoice” (Jn 16, 20), He said before leaving us,
\nbut here below you shall be in sorrow and trial as I was
\nbefore entering into my glory:
\nOpportuit pati Christum et ita intrare in gloriam suam<\/em> (Lk 24, 26).
\nThat is necessary, it is the way of My providence;
\nbut remain steadfast.
\n“Have confidence,” confidite<\/em> (Jn 16, 33).
\n“I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world” (Mt 28, 20).
\nNow your faith receives Me each day in the mystery of My self-abasement,
\nbut I will come one day in the full revelation of My glory.
\nAnd you, My faithful disciples, shall share this glory,
\nfor you are one with Me.
\nDid I not ask this of My Father when about to pay the price of it by My Sacrifice?
\n“Father, I will that where I am, they also whom Thou hast given Me
\nmay be with Me; that they may see My glory which Thou hast given Me,
\nbecause Thou hast loved Me before the creation of the world”:
\nPater,<\/em> VOLO ut ubi sum ego, et ill sint<\/em> MECUM,
\nut videant claritatem meam quam dedisti mihi<\/em> (Jn 17, 24).
\nAs for you whom I have called My friends,
\nto whom I have confided the secrets of My Divine life, as My Father ordained;
\nyou who have believed, and have not left Me,
\nyou shall enter into My joy, and live by Me.
\nFull life, perfect joy, because it will be My own life and My personal joy
\nthat I will give you.
\nMy life and My joy as Son of God,
\nUt gaudium<\/em> MEUM in vobis sit,
\net gaudium vestrum<\/em> IMPLEATUR (Jn 15, 11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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