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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:A THEOLOGY OF DEATH \nBy Karl Rahner1 \n◊◊◊ \nThe ultimate act of freedom\, in which we decide our own fate totally and \nirrevocably\, is the act in which we either willingly accept or definitively rebel \nagainst our own utter impotence\, in which we are utterly subject to the control \nof a mystery which cannot be expressed – that mystery which we call God. In \ndeath a human being is totally withdrawn from self. Every power\, down to the \nlast vestige of a possibility\, of autonomously controlling its own destiny is taken \naway. \nThus the exercise of freedom taken as a whole is summed up at this point \non one single decision: whether we yield everything up or whether everything is \ntaken from us by force\, whether we respond to this radical deprivation of all \npower by uttering our assent in faith and hope to the nameless mystery which \nwe call God\, or whether even at this point we seek to cling on to our own \nautonomy\, protest against this fall into helplessness\, and\, because of our \ndisbelief\, suppose that we are falling into the abyss of nothingness when in \nreality we are falling into the unfathomable depths of God. \nOn the basis of this it is possible for us to realize that death can be either \nan act of faith or a mortal sin. In order rightly to understand this we must \nconsider (and perhaps it would have been clearer to make this point right from \nthe first) that the actual act of dying does not necessarily occur at that point in \ntime in the physical order at which doctors suppose it to take place\, and at which \nit is considered to take place in the popular estimation when we speak of the \nfinal departure and of death as coming at the end of life. In reality we are dying \nall our lives through right up to this\, the final point in the process of dying…9 \nNow this death in life or living death\, as it may be called\, can become one \nof two things: it can be made into an enduring act of faith in the fact that our \nlives and destinies are being directed and controlled by another and that this \ndirection is right; the willing acceptance of our destiny\, the ultimate act of self- \ncommitment to that destiny\, a renunciation which we make in anticipation of \nour final end because in the end we must renounce all things; also because we \nbelieve that it is only by this poverty entailed in freely accepting our own destiny \nthat we can free ourselves for the hand of God in God’s unfathomable power \nand grace to dispose of us as God wills. \nAlternatively\, this death in the midst of life can become an act of \ndesperately clinging on by main force to that which is destined to fall away from \nus\, a protest\, whether silent or expressed\, against this death in life\, the despair \nof one who is avid for life and who imagines that by sinning happiness is \nobtained by force. The death that is accomplished in life\, therefore\, must be \nreally the act of that loving and therefore trustful faith which gives us courage \nto allow ourselves to be taken up by another. Otherwise\, it will become the \nmortal sin which consists in the pride of seeking one’s own absolute autonomy\, \nanxiety (Angst) and despair all in one.
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