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SUMMARY:Office For the Dead
DESCRIPTION:CHRIST WILL DRAW ALL PEOPLE TO HIMSELF\nFrom a sermon by St Athanasius of Antioch 3\n◊◊◊\n“To this end Christ died and rose to life that he might be Lord both of the\ndead and of the living. But God is not God of the dead\, but of the living.” \nThat is why the dead\, now under the dominion of one who has risen to\nlife\, are no longer dead but alive. Therefore life has dominion over them and\,\njust as Christ having been raised from the dead\, will never die again\, so too they\nwill live and never fear death again. When they have been thus raised from the\ndead and freed from decay\, they shall never again see death\, for they will share\nin Christ’s resurrection just as he himself shared in their death. \nThat is why Christ descended into the underworld\, with its imperishable\nprison-bars: to shatter the doors of bronze and break the bars of iron and\, from\ndecay\, to raise our life to himself by giving us freedom in place of servitude. \nBut if this plan does not yet appear to be perfectly realized – for people\nstill die and bodies still decay in death – this should not occasion any loss of\nfaith. For\, in receiving the first-fruits\, we have already received the pledge of all\nthe blessings we have mentioned; with them we have reached the heights of\nheaven\, and we have taken our place beside him who has raised us up with\nhimself\, as Paul says: In Christ God has raised us up with him\, and has made us\nsit with him in the heavenly places. \nAnd the fulfillment will be ours on the day predestined by the Father\,\nwhen we shall put off our childish ways and come to perfect manhood. For this\nis the decree of the Father of the ages: the gift\, once given\, is to be secure and\nno more to be rejected by a return to childish attitudes. \nThere is no need to recall that the Lord rose from the dead with a spiritual\nbody\, since Paul in speaking of our bodies bears witness that they are sown as\nanimal bodies and raised as spiritual bodies: that is\, they are transformed in\naccordance with the glorious transfiguration of Christ who goes before us as our\nleader. \nThe Apostle\, affirming something he clearly knew\, also said that this\nwould happen to all peoples through Christ\, who will change our lowly body to\nmake it like his glorious body. \nIf this transformation is a change into a spiritual body and one\,\nfurthermore\, like the glorious body of Christ\, then Christ rose with a spiritual\nbody\, a body that was sown in dishonor\, but the very body that was transformed\nin glory. \nHaving brought this body to the Father as the first-fruits of our nature\, he\nwill also bring the whole body to fulfillment. For he promised this when he said:\nI\, when I am lifted up\, will draw all people to myself. \n3 Oratio 5\, de Resurrectione Christi\, 6-7\,9: PG 89\,1358-1359. 1361-1362. From the Liturgy of the Hours vol. III\, p. 1886.
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