Tuesday, April 21 : Saint Hilary

It is yours to grant our prayer, yours to bring our seeking to its term, yours to open the door where we knock (Lk 11,9). For you see us to be naturally dulled by some sort of spiritual laziness, and our spirit’s feebleness… prevents us from understanding your mysteries… Here, then, is our expectation: that you will strengthen the first beginnings of this daunting project, affirm the progress of our enterprise and call us to participate in the Spirit who guided your prophets and apostles. In this way we won’t understand their words in a different sense to the one they intended… Indeed, we will affirm what they declared in their sacred teaching: that you, eternal God, are the Father of the eternal God, your only Son. You alone are the only one not to have been born and our Lord Jesus Christ is the only one to have been born of you by an eternal birth, yet without differing from you to the extent of suggesting there to be really two gods. Yes indeed, we must make it known that he who is the Only God was fathered by you. We must firmly declare it: he is nothing other than true God born of you, our true God and Father. Therefore grant us to give these words their true meaning, pour light into our minds… and set our faith firmly in the truth. Enable us to say what we believe…: that you are one God and Father and that there is one Lord Jesus Christ. May we acclaim you…, may we revere you, one God who yet is not alone, and may we declare him to be, himself, true God.

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