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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD TO COME \nFrom “Sacraments and Orthodoxy” by Fr Alexander Schmemann3 \n◊◊◊ \nThe liturgy of Christian death does not begin when one comes to the \ninescapable end and their corpse lies in church for the last rites while we stand \naround\, the sad yet resigned witnesses of the dignified removal of one from the \nworld of the living. It begins every day as the Church ascending into heaven\, \n“puts aside all earthly care”; it begins every feast day; it begins especially in the \njoy of Easter. The whole life of the Church is in a way the sacrament of our death\, \nbecause all of it is the proclamation of the Lord’s death\, the confession of his \nresurrection. \nThe Church is the entrance into the risen life of Christ\, communion in life \neternal\, “joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.” And it is the expectation of the “day \nwithout evening” of the Kingdom; not of any “other world\,” but of the fulfillment \nof all things and all life in Christ. In him death itself has become an act of life\, \nfor he has filled it with himself\, with his love and light. In him “all things are \nyours; whether the world\, or life\, or death\, or things present\, or things to come; \nall are yours; and you are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.” \nAnd if I make this new life mine\, mine this hunger and thirst of the \nKingdom\, mine this expectation of Christ\, mine the certitude that Christ is Life\, \nmy very death will be an act of communion with Life. For neither life nor death \ncan separate us from the love of Christ. I do not know when and how the \nfulfillment will come. I do not know when all things will be consummated in \nChrist. I know nothing about the “when’s” and “how’s.” But I know that in Christ \nthis great Passage\, the Pascha of the world has begun\, that the light of the “world \nto come” comes to us in the joy and peace of the Holy Spirit\, for Christ is risen \nand Life reigns. \n 
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