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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE LIFE THAT RISES \nTHROUGH DEATH \nFrom “The Eternal Year” by Fr Karl Rahner2 \n◊◊◊ \nThere is a distance of God that permeates the pious and the impious\, that \nperplexes the mind and unspeakably terrifies the heart. The pious do not like to \nadmit it\, because they suppose that such a thing should not happen to them \n(although the Lord himself cried out\, “My God\, my God\, why have you forsaken \nme?”); and the others\, the impious\, draw false consequences from the admitted \nfacts… For when the bitter God-distance becomes a divine service\, the fasting \nseason of the world changes into the fasting season of the Church. \nThe first thing we have to do is this: stand up and face this God-distance of \na choked-up heart. We have to resist the desire to run away from it either in \npious or in worldly business. We have to endure it without the narcotic of the \nworld\, without the narcotic of sin or of obstinate despair. What God is really far \naway from you in this emptiness of heart? Not the true and living God; for he is \nprecisely the intangible God\, the nameless God; and that is why he can really be \nthe God of your measureless heart. Distant from you is only a God who does not \nexist: a tangible God\, a God of our small thoughts and our cheap\, timid feelings\, \na God of earthly security\, a God whose concern is that the children don’t cry and \nthat philanthropy doesn’t fall into disillusion\, a very venerable – idol! That is \nwhat has become distant… \nDo not be frightened over the loneliness and abandonment of your \ninterior dungeon\, which seems to be so dead – like a grave. For if you stand firm \n– this is already a wonder of grace – then you will suddenly perceive that your \ngrave-dungeon only blocks the futile finiteness; you will become aware that \nyour deadly void is only the breadth of God’s intimacy\, that the silence is filled \nup by a word without words\, by the one who is above all name and is all in all. \nThat silence is God’s silence. It tells you that God is there. \nThat is the second thing you should do in your despair: notice that God is \nthere. Know with faith that he is with you. Perceive that for a long time now he \nhas been waiting for you in the deepest dungeon of your blocked-up heart\, and \nthat for a long time he has been quietly listening to you\, even though you\, after \nall the busy noise that we call our life\, do not even let him get a word in edgewise\, \nand his words to the person-you-were-until-now seem only deadly silence. You \nshall see that you by no means make a mistake if you give up your anxiety over \nyourself and your life\, that you by no means make a mistake if you relax your \nhold on self\, that you are by no means crushed with despair if once and for all \nyou despair of yourself\, of your wisdom and strength\, and of the false image of \nGod that is snatched away from you… \nIf we do this\, then peace comes all by itself. Peace is the most genuine \nactivity: the silence that is filled with God’s word\, the trust that is no longer \nafraid\, the sureness that no longer needs to be assured\, and the strength that is \npowerful in weakness – it is\, then\, the life that rises through death. \n  \n2 The Eternal Year\, K. Rahner\, Helicon: Baltimore MD 1964. pp 68ff.5
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