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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A LIFE WITH CHRIST \nby Fr Louis Bouyer \n◊◊◊ \nOur death with Christ and this resurrection with Him\, giving us the life \nhidden with Christ in God\, who will appear when Christ Himself will appear\, is \nthe whole mystery that St Paul tells us God had reserved for these later times. \nWriters have often stressed the extraordinary frequency of grammatical \ncompounds containing the word “with” in the writings of St Paul\, and have \nrightly observed that it is a characteristic feature of his whole conception of the \nChristian life. Indeed\, for him\, the Christian life\, the life of the Church or that of \neach Christian\, is a life with Christ. It is important to grasp all that that implies. \nJesus of Nazareth\, who died and rose under Pontius Pilate and is now \nseated at the right hand of the Father until the day He will come to judge the \nliving and the dead\, has never been for St Paul\, nor for any Catholic theologian\, \na hero whose epic must leave the impression that His achievements are too \nwonderful ever to be duplicated in ourselves. Surely no poet has dreamed of a \nhero more sublime than the One of whom the Apostle wrote: Despoiling the \nprincipalities and the powers\, he made a public spectacle of them\, leading \nthem away in triumph. But it is for us that He triumphed thus\, and we must \nknow that by Him and with Him\, dead as we were\, God has raised us up with \nhim and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus. \nYes\, Christ accomplished all that in us\, for\, if the sense of our own \nweakness is what faith\, in cutting at the very root of our pride\, first thrusts upon \nus\, it does so only to make clear to us that strength is made perfect in weakness \nand that we can do all things in Him who strengthens us – that is\, Jesus Christ. \nThat the Church celebrates Easter\, that today she suffers and weeps with \nher Head\, then rises and exults with Him\, is the sign that the relation between \nChrist and the Church\, between Christ and us\, is quite different from that \nexisting between any historic personages of different epochs\, even between a \nmaster and his disciples. For the authors of the New Testament\, even for the \nevangelists whose immediate end is to recount the earthly life of Jesus of \nNazareth\, this Christ can never be considered simply as a man whose life and \ndeath might inspire sentiments analogous to those awakened by\, say\, the life \nand death of a Socrates\, even though those sentiments were incomparably \ndeepened and purified. He is truly the Son of God made flesh for our sake.
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