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SUMMARY:Easter Saturday
DESCRIPTION:THE FRATERNAL CITY OF GOD \nBy Maertens & Frisque7 \n◊◊◊ \nFaith in the paschal mystery makes the world appear as an enormous \nedifice under construction! All are called\, in Jesus Christ\, to take their part in \nthe building up of the fraternal city of God. This is a gigantic labour which \ndemands the co-operation of all peoples and all cultures. Christ planted once \nand for all the seed of true salvation-history; this seed was his own life as \nhuman\, lived with perfect fidelity unto death on the cross\, a life whose \nsignificance is eternal because it was that of the Son. Beginning with this unique \nseed\, the process of growth must continue until the Body of Christ has attained \nits perfect stature. This slow growth of the Kingdom here on earth – where the \nKingdom takes shape without manifesting itself as such – progressively \nconcerns humanity and the entire creation. \nTo the degree to which he takes part in the mission\, the Christian will \nnecessarily experience those “tribulations” of which St. Paul often speaks. How \ncan they be avoided? The Kingdom is not constructed without a constant \npassage from death to life\, and this work of love inevitably provokes the fierce \nresistance of the wisdom of this world. But\, like St. Paul\, the Christian “is \noverjoyed amid all afflictions“\, because he knows that through them the final \ncity is being built. \nChristian hope is no longer the hope of Judaic person. For Israel\, the \nKingdom was not a thing to be built; it would appear fully achieved\, so to speak. \nThe Christian lives a hope in the dynamism of a task to be accomplished: the \nmission. The accomplishment will not come until the gospel has been preached \nto all the nations. But what does such a proclamation involve? It is a matter of \nimplanting the mystery of Christ in time and space so that the light of Easter \nmay effectively illumine the spiritual journey of all the peoples and cultures of \nthe earth. This is a very long enterprise\, because no sector of human life \nremains foreign to it. After twenty centuries\, we are only beginning to measure \nthe very close connection that exists between the mission of the Church and the \nhistory of humanity. St. Paul believed that the universal mission was a task he \ncould undertake himself – at least he thought so for a time! Today\, we have not \nfinished discovering its whole amplitude. \n  \n7Guide for the Christian Assembly. T. Maertens & J. Frisque. Biblica\, Belgium\, 1965\, pp. 119-120.15 \n  \n  \n 
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