Friday, December 9 : Saint Gertrude of Helfta

O wondrous Wisdom of God, how powerful, how very bright is your voice! Without exception you call to yourself all who yearn for you. You indwell in the humble. You cherish those who cherish you (Prv 8:17). You judge the cause of the poor. You show loving-kindness to all. “You hate nothing of what you have made”. “You keep secret the sins of men” You mercifully await their repentance (cf. Wis 11:23-24). Abiding in yourself, you renew all things. Ah, renew me in yourself and make me holy that you may be able to transport yourself into my soul. … Cause me to watch for you in the morning that I may truly find you (Is 26:9; Wis 6:12-14). Take possession of me that I may truly yearn for you. Oh, how prudently you go about setting things in order! Oh, how providently you arrange all things when, by way of saving humankind, you inspire the King of glory (Ps 24[23]:8; 1 Cor 2:8) … to think of peace and to fulfil charity while maintaining his princely majesty, you have laid on his back an opportunity for love that he might “bear on the wood of the cross the iniquity of the people,” (1 Pt 2:24). O very bright Wisdom of God, whose magnificent works no diabolical malice could impede, … whose multitudinous mercies, whose magnitude of love, and whose fullness of goodness no magnitude of offences could quench. Rather, your imperial assiduousness would prevail, pleasantly arranging all things, “reaching strongly from end to end” (Wis 1:8).
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