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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Holy Saturday
DESCRIPTION:THE DEATH OF CHRIST \nHAS TRANSFORMED DEATH \nBy St Cyril of Alexandria \n◊◊◊ \nThey took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices\, \naccording to the Jewish burial custom. At the place where he had been crucified \nthere was a garden\, and in this garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been \nburied. \nChrist was numbered among the dead. For our sake he was put to death \nin the body\, even though of himself and through his Father we believe him to be\, \nand indeed he is\, life it self. In order to do all that was required by God\, all that \nwas involved in his having become man\, he freely submitted the temple of his \nbody not only to death\, but to everything that accompanies it\, to the laying out of \nhis body and its burial in a tomb. \nThe Evangelist says that his tomb was in a garden and that it was new. \nThis teaches us in a symbolic way that it is through Christ’s death that we gain \nentry into paradise; he entered as the forerunner on our behalf. The newness of \nthe tomb suggests the new and untrodden path from death to life and the \nrenewal by which Christ frees us from corruption. By Christ’s death\, our death \nhas been transformed into something quite new\, more like a kind of sleep. We \nare alive now to God\, as Scripture says\, and destined to live for ever. This is why \nSaint Paul frequently refers to those who have died in Christ as those who have \nfallen asleep. \nIn the past the power of death had always prevailed against our nature. \nFrom the time of Adam to the time of Moses\, death ruled over all\, even over \nthose who did not sin\, as Adam did\, by disobeying God’s command. We bore the \nimage of the earthly man\, Adam\, and underwent the death inflicted by the \ndivine curse\, but when the second Adam who is divine and from heaven \nappeared among us\, he fought for the lives of us all\, purchased them by his own \ndeath in the flesh and then\, having destroyed the power of corruption\, he rose \nagain. In this way he transformed us into his own image\, so that the death we \nnow undergo is of a new kind; it does not lead to eternal destruction\, but is \nrather a sleep\, full of good hope. In fact\, it resembles the death of Christ\, who \nopened up for us this new pathway to life.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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