Monday, April 7 : Symeon the New Theologian

Who, Lord, can speak of you? Your works, your glory, and your knowledge are utterly incomprehensible and ungraspable. Yet we have hope, we possess faith, and we know the love you have given us, boundless, inexpressible, and indescribable; it is light, inaccessible light, the light that acts in all. For what does this light not do, and what is it not? It is charm and joy, sweetness and peace, mercy without number, abyss of compassion. Invisible, it is seen; and it is understood without being able to contain it. Untouchable, intangible, it can be grasped by my mind. When I possess it, I do not notice it; I see it only when it departs; I rush to seize it, and it flies away entirely. I do not know what to do and I am consumed. I learn to ask and seek with tears in great humility, and not to consider as possible what transcends nature, nor as the effect of my power or human effort, what comes from the compassion of God and his infinite mercy. (…) Light invites silence and teaches almighty humility. When, therefore, I acquire it and become humble, from that moment on, it too remains with me inseparably, unites itself to me and enlightens me; it looks at me and I look at it. It is in my heart and it is found in heaven; it reveals the Scriptures to me, brings me knowledge, and teaches me mysteries I cannot express.

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