Tag: Gilbert of Hoyland
Wash, make yourselves clean
You urge me to lay down for you some rule for contemplating the Beloved and to give you a method for this discovery and vision. What does this mean? Would you have me confine within a rule the bounty of God’s gift? This vision results not from human effort but from grace. It is the… Read More ›
I have found him whom my soul loves
‘I found him,’ the soul says, ‘I found him’, though previously he sought and found me like a stray sheep, like a lost coin, and in his mercy anticipated me. He forestalled me, I say, in finding me when I was lost. He anticipated me, though I deserved nothing. He found me astray, he anticipated… Read More ›
I have found him whom my soul loves
`I found him,’ the soul says, ‘I found him’, though previously he sought and found me like a stray sheep, like a lost coin, and in his mercy anticipated me. He forestalled me, I say, in finding me when I was lost. He anticipated me, though I deserved nothing. He found me astray, he anticipated… Read More ›
We are the ones wounded
With what oil abounding was Christ anointed! From his bounty he poured oil into all our wounds! Yes, we are the wounded man who went down to Jericho, fell among brigands, was robbed, and wounded and left half dead. Too many passed by and there was not one to save his life. That great patriarch… Read More ›
God sees you as you truely are — in His eyes
Even now you have a partial likeness, because you know partially. ‘With face unveiled’ you are ‘already contemplating my glory’, but yet you are still ‘being transformed from one degree of glory to another’. While you are being transformed, you do not yet possess wholly. To be transformed is to make progress, but not yet… Read More ›