Christ’s words, in the bride’s presence, containing similes in which Christ is compared to a peasant, good priests to a good shepherd, bad priests to a bad shepherd, and good Christians to a wife. These similes are helpful in many ways.
Book 1 - Chapter 59 SAINT BRIDGET PATRON SAINT OF EUROPE PART I
I am he who has never uttered a falsehood. The world takes me for a peasant whose very name seems contemptible. My words are held to be foolish and my house is considered a lowly shanty. Now, this peasant had a wife who wanted nothing but what he wanted, who possessed everything in common with her husband and accepted him as her master, obeying him in everything as her master. This peasant also had a lot of sheep, and he hired a shepherd to watch over them for five gold pieces and for the provision of his daily needs. This was a good shepherd who made a right use of the gold and the food as his needs required. As time went by, this shepherd was succeeded by another shepherd, an inferior one, who used the gold to buy himself a wife and gave her his food, constantly taking his rest with her and not caring about the wretched sheep that were being chased and scattered about by ferocious beasts. When the peasant saw his sheep scattered, he cried out saying:
‘My shepherd is unfaithful to me. My sheep have been scattered and some of them have been devoured fleece and all by ferocious beasts, while others have died but their bodies have been left uneaten.’ Then his wife said to her husband the peasant: ‘My lord, it is certain that we will not get back the bodies that have been devoured. But, let us carry home and make use of those bodies that remain intact, although there is no breath in them. We will not be able to bear it, if we are to be left with nothing.’ Her husband answered her: ‘What shall we do? Since the animals had venom in their teeth, the flesh of the sheep has become infected with deadly venom, the hide is ruined, the wool is all matted.’ His wife answered: ‘If everything has been wasted and everything gone, what, then, shall we live on?’ Her husband answered:
‘I see there are some sheep still alive in three places. Some of them resemble the dead sheep and dare not breathe out of fright. Others are lying deep in mud and cannot manage to raise themselves up. Still others are in hiding places and dare not come out. Come, wife, let us lift up the sheep that are trying to stand up but cannot do so without help, and let us make use of them!’ Behold, I the Lord am that peasant. Men think of me as of an of a donkey raised in its stall according to its nature and habits. My name is the mind of Holy Church. She is thought of as contemptible, inasmuch as the sacraments of the church, baptism, anointing, unction, penance, and matrimony, are, as it were, received with derision and administered to others with greed.
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