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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:DEATH AND OUR LIVES AS CHRISTIANS \nBy Cardinal Jean Daniélou4 \n◊◊◊ \nTHE CHRISTIAN LIFE is altogether an act of waiting. Christians know \nthat they are made for greater things. They feel acutely the misery of their \npresent condition. They aspire to be relieved of the weight of animal life and its \nservitude. “I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ” (Phil 1:23). While the \ncarnal in us grasps desperately at pleasures and possessions\, the Christian lives \nalready in the order of being\, detached\, free\, making use of time\, so long as it is \ngiven\, to perform works of charity towards all – an activity invisible to the eyes \nof the world. The Christian life is a hidden life. But when the world is folded up \nlike a tent\, the reality that has been hidden until that moment will be clearly \nrevealed. It is to prepare oneself for this solemn act\, which is the entry of every \nperson into the heavenly Temple\, through the veil that still conceals it\, that \none’s whole life must be devoted. \nThat life consists for the Christian in being endowed little by little with \ndivine manners… We must not be without a country on our arrival in heaven. \nOur life is an apprenticeship. It is a matter of learning the rudiments of what we \nshall have one day to do. So let us already try in prayer to stammer what will \nlater be the ‘conversation in heaven’ with God and his angels; so we must try to \nmake less crude this intellect of ours\, which is so immersed in the world of time \nand space\, and to acclimatize it gradually to heavenly things through the action \nof the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Thus charity itself is the clumsy beginning of that \ncomplete communion which will embrace all the saints. So doing\, we begin to \ndo what we have always to do. It is our real life which is being mapped out. Let \nus begin it. \n4 The Presence of God\, Baltimore 1959\, pp.55-57.
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