Wednesday, October 23 : Blessed Guerric of Igny

MEDITATIO, Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine) MEDITATIO

We are waiting to celebrate Christ’s birthday; and, according to the Lord’s promise, we will soon see him. The Scripture demands from us that we rejoice to the point of raising our spirit above itself and of, in a way, leaping for joy at the coming of the Lord…For, even before his advent, the Lord comes to you. Before appearing to the whole world, he comes visit you personally, He who said: “I will not leave you orphaned; I will come back to you” (Jn 14:18). In fact, according to the merit and fervor of each one, there is a frequent and familiar advent of the Lord that, in this intermediary period between his first and last coming, models us on one and prepares us to the other. The Lord comes to us now so that his first coming to us may not be vain and that the last one may not be that of wrath. Through his present coming, in fact, he works at reforming our pride in the image of the humility of his first advent, to then remodel our humble body in the image of the glorified body he will show us when he will return. This is why we should desire and fervently ask this personal coming that gives us the grace of this first advent and promises us the glory of the last. … The first was humble and hidden, the last will be resounding and magnificent; the one we are talking about is hidden, but it is also magnificent. I say it is hidden, not because it is ignored by whom it concerns, but because it happens secretly in him. … He comes without being seen and he leaves without being noticed. His simple presence is light for the soul and for the spirit: by it you may see the invisible and get to know the unknown. This coming of the Lord puts the soul of who contemplates it in a gentle and happy state of admiration. Then, from the inmost depths of man, the cry may burst out: “O Lord, who is like you!” (Ps 34:10). Those who have experienced it know; please God, that those who haven’t yet done this experience may feel at least the desire to !

Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine) Daily Readings – rosary,team