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For the Feast of Pentecost

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

John Tauler O.P.
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Estote prudentes et viyilate in orationibus.

Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

(1 St Peter, 4.)

All over the world today Holy Church is celebrating the coming down of the Holy Ghost whom God sent visibly and with such glory to the apostles and chosen disciples. Of course it was necessary that those men, whose mission it was to be an example to the world and who were to lay down the way of perfection to all who should come after them, should themselves be enlightened and filled with the fervour of divine love, above all their contemporaries. It was only just that they should be consoled with a fuller grace of the Holy Spirit who had been deprived of all joy and altogether abandoned, left desolate within and without.

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Research Article
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Life of the Spirit , Volume 3 , Issue 36 , June 1949 , pp. 564 - 571
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Copyright © 1949 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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1 Whoever can understand pre-eminently in what this preparation for receiving the Holy Ghost consists, is already perfectly prepared. (German edition 1826).

2 When critics affirm that the true Tauler that they oppose to the Master in the book of that name, never speaks of priests and monks except with deepest veneration, they doubtless have never read this and many similar passages in which Tauler does not stand on ceremony about telling the truth boldly. We should like to know what the Master has said that is any stronger. (Pére Noel).

3 Perhaps this reminds us of a criticism of Bossuet's reproaching Tauler with neglect of the humanity of Christ. Never was reproach more unmerited. We see, not only here but everywhere, the immense and necessary role which he assigns to the Body and Soul of our Lord. He is the indispensable mediator, the stone, as he says here, without which nothing good can be constructed. But who would dare to assert that we are to stop short at the Sacred Humanity? If he is a mediator, it is only to lead us to the divine essence. (Père Noel, O.P.).