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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY \nFrom “The Faith and Modern Man” by Fr Romano Guardini3 \n◊◊◊ \nWe associate the word saints with the idea of exceptional persons. In the \nNew Testament\, however\, it signifies Christians generally. Being a Christian at \nall was extraordinary. For the Christians stood out sharply from the \nenvironment; either one lived in the Old Testament world\, or in the Hellenistic- \npagan world\, and by both they were regarded as something strange if not \nhostile. The experience of conversion lifted them out of the environment. A \nsense of the reality of God not learned from natural religious experience or from \nthe teaching of the Old Testament had shaken and\, at the same time\, blessed \nthem. \nIn the existence of Christ\, God’s countenance had been unveiled. The life \nof Christ had made them aware of how God is minded toward us. These \nexperiences had changed their whole lives. They had acquired new ideas of God\, \nnew standards of judging the world. The “renewal of mind” of which the Gospel \nspeaks and which they had begun to fulfill\, now consisted not only in a \nconversion to a good and pious life\, but in a change of direction in their whole \nway of thinking. Thus for them\, actually\, “all things had become new” -and with \nall these “new things” they found themselves still in an old world\, a world which \nregarded them with distrust and hostility. All this is\, in itself\, extraordinary \n-indeed the very essence of the extraordinary\, and the “saint” was one who led \nthis existence. \nBut the spread of Christianity and its increase in members tended to \nobscure its unique nature. Time went on\, the Gospel grew familiar\, and the \nsense of newness wore off. Christianity became the state religion and\, as such\, \nthe official order of society. Thus the fact that being a Christian at all was in itself \nextraordinary faded out of people’s consciousness\, and Christianity grew to be \nregarded as normal and usual.
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