BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250220
DTSTAMP:20260429T030010
CREATED:20250216T142642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T142642Z
UID:13137-1739923200-1740009599@laycisterciansofgethsemani.org
SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:ETERNAL LIFE \nAND ITS DIFFERENCE \nFrom a sermon by Monsignor Ronald Knox \n◊◊◊ \nThe mistake we are tempted to make\, do make in our moments of idle \nthinking\, is to suppose that eternal life merely means going on living. That\, \nnaturally enough\, was what the pagans thought\, when they dreamed that there \nwas some possibility of a life after death. There is an epigram in the Greek \nAnthology\, often quoted for its beauty\, in which the poet says to his dead friend\, \n“Once\, a morning star\, you shone among the living; now you shine\, an evening \nstar\, among the dead.”… So\, in Virgil’s Aeneid\, the heroes of Elysium are found \nlooking after their horses and chariots: “The same grateful task that was ever \ntheirs\, to feed their sleek horses\, is theirs still\, now that earth has covered them.” \nDo we\, children of a later age\, look forward to an eternity spent in washing down \nthe car? But it is the same mistake we are making\, if we think of eternal life as \nthe mere continuation of living. \nWe unconsciously compare the experience of a future life to that of \nwaking up after an operation; waking up to breakfast and the morning paper. \nAnd\, of course\, if we think of survival after death in those terms\, it becomes an \nopen question for some of us whether we want to survive or not. The unpleasant \nthing is the experience of dying; if we could avoid that\, many of us would be \ncontent to go on living\, even in an atomic age. But when we have once been put \nto all this inconvenience\, would we be sure that we wanted to come back again \nand go on living\, more or less as before?… \nEternal life is not that sort of thing at all. When our Lord said he had come \nthat we might have life\, and might have it more abundantly\, he clearly did not \nmean that he was going to introduce\, into our humdrum\, day-to-day existence\, \nmore joie de vivre. The “life” which he came to bring – we have to call it “life”\, \nbecause that is the nearest thing to it we know – belongs to a different order of \nexistence. It has its own avenues of experience\, its own range of faculties\, its \nown proper activities. And it will find its true medium only in heaven. True\, \nthat life is in us now\, implanted by baptism. But we are not yet in a position to \nenjoy it\, in the sense of savouring its possibilities. We are\, if I may put it so\, \nembryonic citizens of heaven\, borne at present in the womb of matter and of \ntime. And that is why we are foolish if we try to project our present experience \ninto a future life… To wake up after death is not like waking up\, after an \noperation\, from the life of today to the life of tomorrow. It is like waking up from \na dream world into a world\, hitherto unexperienced\, of realities.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-office-for-the-dead-17/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR