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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE CALL TO REPENTANCE \nBy Pope Paul VI3 \n◊◊◊ \nChrist\, who during his life always did what he taught\, spent forty days and \nforty nights in fasting and prayer before beginning his ministry. He began his \npublic mission with this joyful message: “The kingdom of God is at hand”\, and \nimmediately added this command\, “Repent\, and believe in the Good News”. In a \ncertain way\, the whole Christian life is summarized in these words. \nRepentance is the only way of attaining to the kingdom which Christ \nproclaimed\, in other words\, by the total and intimate change and renewal of the \nwhole person\, in thought\, judgment\, and life. This change and renewal effects \nitself in man through the light of that holiness and love of God which has been \nshown and communicated to us wholly in the Son. \nThe Son’s call to repentance becomes all the more obligatory for us \nbecause he not only preached it but offered himself as an example. Christ is\, in \nfact\, the supreme example for penitents. He chose to suffer\, not for his own sins \nbut for those of others. \nWhen anyone comes into Christ’s presence they are enlightened by a new \nlight\, for they see the holiness of God and the gravity of sin. Through Christ’s \nword they receive the message which summons them to conversion and bestows \npardon on sin. They receive these gifts in their fulness through baptism which \nmolds them in the likeness of Christ’s passion\, death and resurrection. After \nbaptism\, their whole life is lived in the light of this mystery. \nTherefore every Christian must follow their Master in self-renunciation\, \nin bearing their cross and in sharing Christ’s suffering. Thus\, transformed in the \nlikeness of his death\, they are able to meditate on the glory of the resurrection. \nThey also follow the Master in living no longer for themselves\, but for Christ \nwho loved them and gave himself for them\, and for their brothers and sisters as \nwell\, completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body\, \nthat is the Church. \nMoreover\, [because] the Church [is] intimately bound to Christ\, the \npenitence of each Christian is also a real and intimate link with the whole \necclesial community. Indeed\, it is not only in the womb of the Church that\, \nthrough baptism\, they receive the initial gift of repentance\, but this gift is \nrestored and reaffirmed—through the sacrament of penance—for those \nmembers of the body of Christ who have fallen into sin. Those who come to this \nsacrament of penance receive there\, through God’s mercy\, pardon for the wrong \nthat they have done. At the same time they are reconciled with the Church\, \nwhom their sin has wounded and who\, by means of love\, example and prayer\, \nlabors for their conversion. \nLastly\, in the Church\, the little work of penance imposed on each penitent \nin the sacrament has a special part in Christ’s infinite expiation; while\, within \nthe order of the Church\, the penitent may unite to sacramental satisfaction \neverything that they do\, suffer and endure. Thus the baptized Christian\, at each \nmoment and in every aspect of their life\, bears the sufferings and death of Jesus \nin his body and soul.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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