BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240509 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240510 DTSTAMP:20260519T112136 CREATED:20240504T190420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240504T190420Z UID:11877-1715212800-1715299199@laycisterciansofgethsemani.org SUMMARY:Vigils Reading DESCRIPTION:WE ARE ALL WITNESSES \nBy Fr Paul Evodokimov4 \n◊◊◊ \nThere are no half measures\, no intermediary formulas. We are in the \npresence of the fundamental evidence of Jesus risen from the dead. A God who \ndoes not present his charter as lover of \, a God who is not love \ncrucified in order to radiate “life\, death of death“\, as St. Augustine says\, is not \nreally God. In following St. Paul’s thought to its conclusion\, we could say that \nall religion exists only by the resurrection and mystically leans on this event. If \nChrist is risen\, this is of interest for all… If the Christian testimony to the risen \nLord is suppressed\, no religion will survive on the level of the modern world\, \nfor outside the Gospel every religious message stops halfway. \nThe Gospel’s transcendent end is God become a risen . \nThis fact does not concern just a few witnesses only; the risen Christ in \nbecoming the contemporary of all means that every is \ncontemporary with the eternal Christ. This makes all the events of history \nessentially Christological. Christ is risen as head of the human body\, and now \nall religions and all can and ought to seek their life in him. This \ntestimony alone determines the ecumenical mission of the Church in the midst \nof all religions and in the great meeting between East and West. History places \nthe Christian faith in the risen Christ as the crossing point of all ideologies that \nnow reformulate the only important question — that asked by Pilate –– ” What \nis truth?” It obliges faith to say its yes\, going if need be as far as the confession \nof martyrdom\, that unique answer that resounds universally. Christ is in agony\, \nand eternity is impatient to hear this answer. \nThe apostolic kerygma announces the event of Easter\, the intervention of \nGod raising up Jesus; this alone gives a definitive meaning to the existence of \n in history. The resurrection of Jesus is God’s “Amen” to his \npromise\, an “Amen” full of the Holy Spirit who manifests it. “Amen” comes from \nthe Hebrew heemin and it means an unshakable base of operations. Those who \nproclaim it—the apostles and martyrs—claim the right to proclaim the event \nbefore the magistrates of the earthly city. \nLikewise the Apologies of Justin\, Athenagoras\, and Aristides present to \nemperors the same decisive message and warn them of the imminent judgment. \nTheir kerygma is of interest to all . It is preached in the presence of \nangels and concerns all of creation: the kingdom of God has already arrived; we \nare contemporaries of the one who sits at the right hand of the Father. Here is \nthe lamb immolated and risen and here is his kingdom. He is here and it is the \nfullness of time. All religions are ways by which seek God. They are \nnumerous. However\, the Christian revelation is unique for it is God who finds \n. The preaching of St. Paul is of capital importance for the theology \nof religion. In deciphering the monument to the unknown God and in giving it \nthe name Jesus Christ\, the apostle integrated with Christ the religious \naspiration of all times and gave it value in Christ. \n  \n4 Paul Evdokimov\, The Struggle with God\, New Jersey: Glen Rock\, 1966\, pp.66-68.11 \n  \n  \n  URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-189/ CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR