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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:THE DIVINE CALL \nFrom a book by Hans Urs von Balthasar5 \n◊◊◊ \nChristian revelation is primarily a revelation of hearing\, not of seeing. \nAlthough the image of seeing is not excluded – for “we see now through a mirror \nin an obscure manner”; wisdom\, when it appears\, is the “mirror … and image” \nof the divine goodness; and Christ is “the image of the invisible God” so that\, in \nseeing him\, we also see the Father – nevertheless the comparison with hearing \nis the dominant one in revelation: the Second Person is heard primarily as \n“Word” – and faith in him comes by hearing. \nThe hearing of the Word is by no means a temporary substitute for the \nseeing that is wanting to us here below. On the contrary\, it is the lasting proof \nthat God never is and never will be a mere “object” of knowledge to us\, but is \nrather the infinitely sovereign majesty of a Trinity of Persons that makes itself \nknown in whatever way and to whomever it wills. That God speaks to us in his \npersonal word is a greater grace than that we are allowed to see him: That we \nare deemed worthy of his word is the grace of graces that makes us partners in \na divine\, even Trinitarian\, conversation. That the word of God is spoken to us is \nthe highest revelation and honor the personal God can bestow upon us\, for it \npresumes that God considers us capable of understanding his word through the \ngift of his grace and of possessing the Spirit who “searches all things\, even the \ndeep things of God\, that we may know all things that have been given us by \nGod”. \nSo tremendous is this grace that the creature thus addressed by God must \nforget its own wishes and desires\, even its longing for “eternal happiness” and \nfor the “vision of God” so that\, trembling in the depths of its being\, it may fall to \nthe ground and hear his voice only to ask: “What shall I do\, Lord?” \nBut one who has been thrown to the ground by the impact of this \ncompelling voice is also “set upon his feet” by it. When God speaks\, He wants a \npartner. He wants one who is erect\, who\, hearing his voice\, is yet able to stand \nupon his feet and answer: “…I fell upon my face\, and I heard the voice of the one \nthat spoke. And he said to me: Son of man\, stand upon your feet\, and I will speak \nto you. And the Spirit entered into me after he spoke to me\, and he set me upon \nmy feet; and I heard him speaking to me…”. When God speaks personally\, he \nwants to be understood personally; when he utters his personal word into the \nworld\, he wants that word to be returned to him\, not as a dead echo\, but as a \npersonal response from his creature in an exchange that is genuinely a dialogue \neven though it can be conducted only in the unity of the divine Word that \nmediates between the Father and us. But just as that divine Word proceeds from \nthe Father\, yet is not the Father\, but only declares the Father\, so the creature \ncan give back to the Father this word it has received by uttering itself in it – or \nbetter\, by letting itself be uttered by it. \n  \n5 The Christian State of Life – Hans Urs von Balthasar – Ignatius Press – San Francisco – 1983 – \npg 393.11 \n  \n 
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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