{"id":74,"date":"2012-02-04T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=74"},"modified":"2015-10-28T20:57:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:57:46","slug":"a-light-to-enlighten-the-gentiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/02\/04\/a-light-to-enlighten-the-gentiles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Light to enlighten the Gentiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Could anyone hold up a lighted candle in his hands on this day without at once remembering that old man who on this same day took up in his arms Jesus, God&#8217;s Word, clothed in flesh like a candle-flame clothed in wax, and affirmed him to be the Light which would be a beacon for the Gentiles?&#8221; Guerric of Igny, &#8220;The First Sermon for the Purification&#8221; in <em>Guerric of Igny: Liturgical Sermons<\/em>, translated by the Monks of Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, Cistercian Publications 1970, p. 101.<\/p>\n<p>In this sermon for the festival of the Purification of Mary the twelfth-century Cistercian abbot \u00a0compares Simeon&#8217;s holding of the infant Jesus with the monks&#8217; ritual bearing of candles. \u00a0Thereby, he emphasized the traditional teaching that Jesus would not only save his own people from their sins, but also enlighten the nations. \u00a0It was a common practice in the Cistercian monastery for monks to process with newly-blessed candles throughout the monastery on this festival of the Purification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Could anyone hold up a lighted candle in his hands on this day without at once remembering that old man who on this same day took up in his arms Jesus, God&#8217;s Word, clothed in flesh like a candle-flame clothed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/02\/04\/a-light-to-enlighten-the-gentiles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cistercian","category-medieval","category-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}