The Banquet of the Ten Virgins, Discourse VI

Discourse VI

• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins VI.1 — Chapter I.—The Excellence of the Abiding Glory of Virginity; The Soul Made in the Image of the Image of God, that is of His Son; The Devil a Suitor for the Soul. With great confidence of being able to persuade, and…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins VI.2 — The Parable of the Ten Virgins. If, then, any one will keep this beauty inviolate and unharmed, and such as He who constructed it formed and fashioned it, imitating the eternal and intelligible nature of which man is…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins VI.3 — The Same Endeavour and Effort After Virginity, with a Different Result. Now when it is said that “the kingdom of heaven is likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom,” this…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins VI.4 — What the Oil in the Lamps Means. Now they offered, in Leviticus, oil of this kind, “pure oil olive, beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually, without the veil…before the Lord.” But they were…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins VI.5 — The Reward of Virginity. These, O fair virgins, are the orgies of our mysteries; these the mystic rites of those who are initiated in virginity; these the “undefiled rewards” of the conflict of virginity. I am…vatican.va