Tuesday, October 10 : Guigo II the Carthusian

We must follow Christ, cleaving to him, nor should we forsake him until we die. As Elisha said to his master : “ As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you ” (2 Kgs 2:2)… So let us follow Christ and stay close to him ! “To be near God is my good ” says the Psalmist (73[72]:28). “ My soul clings fast to you ; your right hand upholds me ” (Ps 63[62]:9). And Saint Paul adds : “ Whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him ” (1 Cor 6:17). Not just one body but one spirit. His whole body lives from the spirit of Christ ; through the body of Christ we attain to the spirit of Christ. Remain, therefore, by faith in Christ’s body and you will become one spirit with him. You are already united to his body through faith ; in vision you will also be united to him in spirit. Not that we shall see without a body when we are above, but our bodies will be spiritual (1 Cor 15:44). “Father,” Christ said : “I pray that they may all be one, as you, are in me and I in you, that the world may believe” : this is what union through faith is. And later he asks: “that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know;” this is union through vision. This is how we are spiritually nourished on the body of Christ : by having a pure faith in him, by continually seeking the content of this faith in assiduous meditation and in this way discovering with our minds what it is we are looking for, by loving passionately the object of our discovery and imitating, so far as possible, him who we love, and, even as we imitate him, by staying close to him at all times so that we may come to everlasting union with him.

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