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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE CROSS OF CHRIST \nFrom a sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx \n◊◊◊ \nOur Lord Jesus Christ worked for our salvation not in one way only but in \nmany. Because his mercy provided for our redemption\, he accomplished it in \nsuch a way that he might be an example for us. Behold\, my brothers\, how at this \ntime you call to mind our redemption; therefore pay diligent attention not only \nto the redemption itself but also to both the manner by which redemption was \naccomplished and the place in which it was done. The manner of the \nredemption is the passion of Christ; the place outside the city. You must know \nthen that from this redemption and the manner of accomplishing it\, we receive \nboth a way of living and the right location that we must choose in order to live in \nthis way. \nLet us accept now the way of living that comes from this cross of Jesus. Do \nI say a way of living or of dying? Certainly both of living and of dying: of of dying \nto the world\, of living for God; of dying to vices\, and of living in virtues; of dying \nto the flesh\, of living however in the Spirit. Therefore in the cross of Christ there \nis death and in the cross of Christ there is life. There the death of death and the \nlife of life. There the death of sins and the life of virtues. There the death of the \nflesh and the life of the Spirit. Why\, however did God choose this kind of death? \nBecause of both the divine mystery itself and the example to be given. Then\, too\, \nbecause our illness was such that the remedy should fit in this way. \nIt was certainly fitting that we who had fallen through the wood would rise \nup through the wood. Fitting that he who conquered through the wood would \nhimself be conquered through it. Fitting that we who chose the fruit of death \nfrom the wood would be given the fruit of life from the wood. And because we \nfell from the stability of this most beautiful earth into the great and spacious sea\, \nit is fitting that wood be prepared for us by which we would cross over that sea. \nFor no one can cross the sea without wood\, nor this world without the cross… \nTherefore do you see how Christ chose this kind of death as full of some \ndivine meaning…? The Apostle explains it openly\, saying\, He humbled himself\, \nbeing made obedient even to death\, death on the cross. He then proclaims the \nmeaning: Because of this\, God exalted him and gave him the name which is \nabove every name\, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow\, in heaven\, \non earth\, and in the depths. Because he was about to take possession of heaven \nand earth through the cross\, he was placed on the cross as if he embraced \nheaven and earth. Since in truth his death has already taken place not on the \nearth nut above the earth\, what can it mean except that\, raised up as we are \nfrom the earth through his blessed passion\, we taste what is above\, not those \nthings on earth. The fact that he died with arms outstretched is a sign of his \ngreat loving kindness. Just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wing and \ndefends them from a persistent raptor\, so he\, clasping us with maternal \naffection under the wings of his grace\, makes us completely secure against the \nattack of heinous spirits.
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