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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:THE DIVINE CALL \nFrom the writing of Hans Urs von Balthasar1 \n◊◊◊ \nChristian revelation is primarily a revelation of hearing\, not of seeing. \nAlthough the image of seeing is not excluded – for “we see now through a \nmirror in an obscure manner”; wisdom\, when it appears\, is the “mirror … and \nimage” of the divine goodness; and Christ is “the image of the invisible God” \nso that\, in seeing him\, we also see the Father – nevertheless the comparison \nwith hearing is the dominant one in revelation: the Second Person is heard \nprimarily as “Word” and faith in him comes by hearing. The hearing of the Word \nis by no means a temporary substitute for the seeing that is wanting to us here \nbelow. On the contrary\, it is the lasting proof that God never is and never will \nbe a mere “object” of knowledge to us\, but is rather the infinitely sovereign \nmajesty of a Trinity of Persons that makes itself known in whatever way and to \nwhomever it wills. \nThat God speaks to us in his personal word is a greater grace than that we \nare allowed to see him: That we are deemed worthy of his word is the grace of \ngraces that makes us partners in a divine\, even Trinitarian\, conversation. That \nthe word of God is spoken to us is the highest revelation and honor the personal \nGod can bestow upon us\, for it presumes that God considers us capable of \nunderstanding his word through the gift of his grace and of possessing the Spirit \nwho “searches all things\, even the deep things of God\, that we may know all \nthings that have been given us by God”. So tremendous is this grace that the \ncreature thus addressed by God must forget its own wishes and desires\, even its \nlonging for “eternal happiness” and for the “vision of God” so that\, trembling \nin the depths of its being\, it may fall to the ground and hear his voice only to \nask: “What shall I do\, Lord?”5 \nBut one who has been thrown to the ground by the impact of this \ncompelling voice is also “set upon his feet” by it. When God speaks\, He wants a \npartner. He wants one who is erect\, who\, hearing his voice\, is yet able to stand \nupon his feet and answer: “…I fell upon my face\, and I heard the voice of the \none that spoke. And he said to me: Son of man\, stand upon your feet\, and I will \nspeak to you. And the Spirit entered into me after he spoke to me\, and he set \nme upon my feet; and I heard him speaking to me…”. \nWhen God speaks personally\, he wants to be understood personally; \nwhen he utters his personal word into the world\, he wants that word to be \nreturned to him\, not as a dead echo\, but as a personal response from his \ncreature in an exchange that is genuinely a dialogue even though it can be \nconducted only in the unity of the divine Word that mediates between the \nFather and us. But just as that divine Word proceeds from the Father\, yet is not \nthe Father\, but only declares the Father\, so the creature can give back to the \nFather this word it has received by uttering itself in it – or better\, by letting itself \nbe uttered by it.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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