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My
brethren, let us follow this call. We are called to the source and
fountain of life, by the Life who is not just the fountain of living
water but also the fountain of eternal life, the fountain of light, the
fountain and source of glory. From this Life comes everything: wisdom,
life, eternal light. The Creator of life is the fountain from which life
springs; the Creator of light is the fountain of light. So let us leave
this world of visible things. Let us leave this world of time and head
for the heavens. Like fish seeking water, like wise and rational fish
let us seek the fountain of light, the fountain of life, the fountain of
living water. Let us swim in, let us drink from the water of the spring welling up into eternal life.
Merciful God, righteous Lord, grant that I may reach
that fountain. There let me join the others who thirst for you, drinking
living water from the living stream that flows from the fountain of
life. Overwhelmed by its sweetness let me cling close to it and say “How
sweet is the spring of living water that never runs dry, the spring
that wells up into eternal life!.”
O Lord, you yourself are that spring, always and for
ever to be desired, always and for ever to be drunk from. Christ our
Lord, give us this water as the Samarian woman once asked you, so that in us also it can be a spring of living water welling up into eternal life.
It is an enormous gift I am asking – everyone knows that – but you,
King of glory, have given great gifts in the past and made great
promises. Nothing, after all, is greater than you; and yet you have
given yourself to us and given yourself for us.
Therefore we beg you that we should come to full
knowledge of the thing that we love; for we pray to be given nothing
other than you yourself. You are everything to us, our life, our light,
our health and strength, our food, our drink, our God. Jesus, our Jesus,
I beg you to fill our hearts with the breath of your Spirit. Pierce our
souls with the sword of your love so that each of us can say truthfully
in his heart, “Show me the one with whom my soul is in love, for by
love I am wounded.”
Lord, let me bear such wounds in my soul. Blessed is
the soul that is wounded by such love and, thus wounded, seeks the
fountain and drinks, thirsts even while it drinks: it seeks by loving,
and the very wound of love brings it healing. May Jesus Christ, our
righteous God and Lord, our true and healing doctor, deign to wound our
innermost hearts with that healing wound. With the Father and the Holy
Spirit he is one, for ever and for ever. Amen.
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