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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:ON LOVING CHRIST \nBy St Augustine2 \n◊◊◊ \nAppearing to his disciples after the Resurrection\, Our Lord put a question \nto the Apostle Peter\, prompting him who had denied him three times out of fear \nto make a threefold profession of his love. Christ rose bodily from the dead\, \nPeter was raised spiritually. Christ our Lord rose from the dead\, and by his love \nraised Peter. What advantage was it to Christ to be loved by Peter? When Christ \nloves you\, you are the gainer\, not Christ. And when you love Christ\, again you \nstand to gain\, not Christ. \nWishing to teach all peoples how they can prove their love for him\, Christ \nour Lord made it plain that this is best proved by their concern for his sheep. \n“Do you love me” Lord\, you know that I love you. Feed my sheep.” This \nhappened not once\, but a second and third time. Our Lord asked only\, “Do you \nlove me?” He received no other answer than\, “You know that I love you.” He \ngave no other charge to Peter than “Feed my sheep”. If we love one another then \nwe also love Christ. For Christ\, God from all eternity\, was born of a human in \nthe course of time… As God in the form of human He worked many miracles. \nAs human He suffered many wrongs at the hands of humans. As God in the form \nof human He arose from the dead. As human among humans He tarried on \nearth forty days. As God in the form of human He ascended into heaven before \ntheir eyes\, and now is seated at the right hand of the Father. All this we fully \nbelieve\, although we do not see it. \n2 Selected Easter Sermons of Saint Augustine. Commentary by Philip T. Weller. B. Herder Book Co. St. Louis\, MO. \n1959. p. 169.4 \nNeither do we see Christ whom we are commanded to love\, and yet each \none of us cries out avowal: I love Christ! “If you do not love your brother or sister \nwhom you see\, how can you love God whom you do not see?” In loving the sheep \nwe prove that we love the Shepherd\, for the sheep are in truth the very members \nof the Shepherd. In order that the sheep might be his members\, He deigned to \nbecome the Lamb of God. In order that the sheep might be his members\, “He \nwas led as a sheep to the slaughter.” In order that the sheep might be his \nmembers\, it was said of him\, “Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who takes \naway the sins of the world.” But what tremendous strength there is in this Lamb. \nWould you like to know when strength was made manifest in this Lamb? Well\, \nthe Lamb was crucified and the lion was overcome. Consider and reflect with \nwhat power the world is ruled by Christ our Lord who vanquished the devil by \nhis death. \nLet us\, then\, give him our love\, and let nothing be dearer to us than He. \nOr do you think that our Lord is not questioning us? Do you imagine that Peter \nalone deserved to be questioned\, and not ourselves? Whenever this lesson is \nread\, the heart of each and every Christian is being scrutinized. Therefore\, \nwhenever you hear the Lord saying\, “Peter\, do you love me?” visualize a mirror \nand examine your own reflection. For what else was Peter but a symbol of the \nChurch? Hence when the Lord questioned Peter\, He was questioning us.
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