Tuesday, June 4 : William of Saint-Thierry

“O the depth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways are past finding out! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor” For you have mercy, Lord, on whom you will have mercy; you have pity on whom you will have pity. Election “is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy'” (Rm 11,33f; 9,15f). The earthen vessel recoils from the hand of him who made it…; it breaks away from the hand that carries it… And woe betide it if it falls away from your hand, for then it will be broken and crushed and reduced to nothing! It knows this, and does not forsake your grace. Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy! You are our potter and we are the clay (cf. Jer 18,6; Gn 2,7)… We have held together until now; we are still carried by your mighty hand, and we are still clinging to your three fingers, faith, hope and charity, with which you support the whole great bulk of earth-that is to say, the whole weight of your holy Church. Cleanse our reins and our hearts by the fire of your Holy Spirit (Ps 26[25],2), and establish the work that you have wrought in us, lest we be loosed asunder and return again to clay or nothingness. We were created for you by yourself, and towards you our face is set. We acknowledge you our maker and creator; we adore your wisdom and pray that it may order all our life. We adore your goodness and mercy, and beg them ever to sustain and help us. You who have made us, bring us to perfection; perfect in us the image and likeness of yourself for which you made us.
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