Caput LXXIII. Amor Deo rependendus pro praedestinationis gratia.
Loved from Before the Foundation
God's predestination, calling, and justification reveal His worthy love, inviting the soul to lift its eyes toward the glory He has prepared.
See now how worthy of love is the One who, by predestining you, set you apart from this condemned fellowship; who, by calling you, separated you; who, by justifying you, made you clean.✦ Now turn your eyes to the right hand, and consider the place where He who is about to glorify you intends to seat you.✦
Read the original Latin
Cerne nunc quam amandus sit, qui te ab hac damnata societate praedestinando discernit, vocando separavit, justificando purgavit. Retorque nunc ad dexteram oculos, et quibus te glorificando sit inserturus, adverte.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Rom.8.29-Rom.8.30 — For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. Rom.8.30 — And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
- ↩Matt.25.33-Matt.25.34 — And he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at his left. Matt.25.34 — Then the King will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.'
De institutione inclusarum (A Rule of Life for a Recluse) companion
A rule only lives if you keep it daily
Chosen Portion gives your new rule its anchor: one free devotional portion every day.
Aelred built his sister's day around fixed times of prayer and meditation; Chosen Portion supplies the fixed daily portion that makes a modern rule of life keepable.
- Anchor your rule with a fixed 10-minute daily portion
- Practice Aelred's threefold meditation with guided daily prompts
- Review and adjust your one-page rule after 30 days of tracked practice