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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE MISSIONARY LIFE \nOF THE CHURCH \nBy Fr Jean Danielou \n◊◊◊ \nThe mission of today is\, first of all\, a mystery of unity. The Apostles were \nsent to the ends of the earth to teach all nations\, because Christ\, having risen to \nheaven\, must be present in all creation. It is no more a question\, as at the time of \nthe old covenant\, of God’s taking one people in particular under his protection. \nThe new mission\, determined upon by God from all eternity\, is to reconcile all \nthings by Christ’s blood “and to restore all things in him.” This mystery involves \nall mankind\, and more than mankind\, the whole spiritual universe. \nIn the second place\, the mystery of the mission is the mystery of the \nmissionary. Christ entrusted the spreading of his Kingdom to the Apostles\, to \nthose he had chosen as his tools in the work of evangelizing. This vocation is a \ngreat mystery. It is clear that God could have communicated directly with each \nindividual\, yet he wanted his word to be handed on and his Kingdom to be \nspread by human intermediaries. He wanted us to have a share in saving the \nworld and converting the nations\, and the Apostles’ mission is a direct \ncontinuation of the mission of the Word and the mission of the Holy Spirit. The \nmission of the Apostles is at once a single thing and a very diverse one… Some \nare to be apostles\, some prophets\, evangelists or teachers. The forms of the \napostolate are many\, but they are all one\, because all get life from the same \nSpirit\, all seek the same end. \nThis unity in the diversity of functions is something St Paul insists on as of \nvital importance. Even then he felt the danger of a possible loss of charity \nthreatening the work of the missions. We must\, said St Bernard\, put all the force \nof our action into our own vocation\, but our charity must cover the whole \nworld… He explains that in the order of action we must put our particular duty \nbefore everything else – do not let the contemplative try to do the apostle’s \nwork\, nor the teacher try to care for the sick – but\, he adds\, “in our prayers we \nmust put first what is most excellent in itself.” We must pray more for the most \nimportant interests of the Kingdom\, even if they are not the ones we ourselves \nare engaged in. Charity will then become perfect in us\, for it is proportioned to \nthe reality of things\, not to our personal point of view; selfishness will then be \novercome at every moment. Outwardly we go humbly about our work\, inwardly \nwe are working out the salvation of the whole world. We must be ready to be at \nonce limited in our work and unlimited in the interior order of charity.
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