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SUMMARY:Reading: Weekday
DESCRIPTION:Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI 4\nat Collège des Bernardins\, Paris – in 2008 \nFrom the perspective of monasticism’s historical influence\, we could say\nthat…the monasteries were the places where the treasures of ancient culture\nsurvived\, and where at the same time a new culture slowly took shape out of the old. \n…Amid the confusion of the times\, in which nothing seemed permanent\, they\nwanted to do the essential – to make an effort to find what was perennially valid\nand lasting\, life itself. They were searching for God. They wanted to go from the\ninessential to the essential\, to the only truly important and reliable thing there is. It\nis sometimes said that they were “eschatologically” oriented. But this is not to be\nunderstood in a temporal sense\, as if they were looking ahead to the end of the\nworld or to their own death\, but in an existential sense: they were seeking the\ndefinitive behind the provisional… \nBecause they were Christians\, this was not an expedition into a trackless\nwilderness\, a search leading them into total darkness. God himself had provided\nsignposts\, indeed he had marked out a path which was theirs to find and to follow.\nThis path was his word\, which had been disclosed to men in the books of the sacred\nScripture… \nBecause the search for God required the culture of the word\, it was\nappropriate…to have a school\, in which these pathways could be opened up…the\nmonastery…[a school of the Lord’s service]…whose ultimate aim is that man should\nlearn how to serve God. But it also includes the formation of reason – education –\nthrough which man learns to perceive\, in the midst of words\, the Word itself… \nThe Word which opens the path of that search\, and is to be identified with\nthis path\, is a shared word. True\, it pierces every individual to the heart. Gregory\nthe Great describes this a sharp stabbing pain\, which tears open our sleeping soul\nand awakens us\, making us attentive to the essential reality\, to God. But in the\nprocess\, it also makes us attentive to one another. The word does not lead to a\npurely individual path of mystical immersion\, but to the pilgrim fellowship of faith… \nThe God who speaks in the Bible teaches us how to speak with him ourselves.\nParticularly in the book of Psalms\, he gives us the words with which we can address\nhim\, with which we can bring our life\, with all its highpoints and lowpoints\, into\nconversation with him\, so that life itself thereby becomes a movement towards\nhim… \nThis particular structure of the Bible issues a constantly new challenge to\nevery generation. It excludes by its nature everything that today is known as\nfundamentalism. In effect\, the word of God can never simply be equated with the\nletter of the text. To attain to it involves a transcending and a process of\nunderstanding\, led by the inner movement of the whole and hence it also has to\nbecome a process of living. Only within the dynamic unity of the whole are the\nmany books one book. The Word of God and his action in the world are revealed\nonly in the word and history of human beings… \nTo seek God and to let oneself be found by him\, that is today no less necessary\nthan in former times. A purely positivistic culture which tried to drive the question\nconcerning God into the subjective realm\, as being unscientific\, would be the\ncapitulation of reason\, the renunciation of its highest possibilities\, and hence a\ndisaster for humanity\, with very grave consequences. What gave Europe’s culture\nits foundation – the search for God and the readiness to listen to him – remains\ntoday the basis of any genuine culture. \n4 Pope Benedict XVI. Address at the Collège des Bernardins\, Paris\, Friday\, 12 September 2008.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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