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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:THE TREMENDOUS DESTINY \nOF LOVE \nBy Caryl Houselander \n◊◊◊ \nQuite different from His appearance to Magdalene or the apostles is \nChrist’s approach to the disciples on the road to Emmaus. These are scholars\, \nthey must come to the point of communion with him through the travail of the \nmind. Step by step he takes them back through the scriptures\, leading them to \nknow him by thinking their own thoughts\, by linking up the academic \nknowledge they have acquired in the past with the events of the day\, and \nthrashing out the problem that is so baffling to intellectuals in all ages\, the \nproblem of suffering. \nThrough a totally different approach to the same problem he convinces \nThomas…the poor man who has no philosophy to be armor against the wounds \nof the world\, no thoughts to help him through the loneliness of his own \nanguish… It was when Thomas actually put his own hands into these wounds \nand felt\, as it were\, his own sins and sorrows redeemed in the glorious Body of \nChrist\, that the cry came out of his heart: “You are my Lord and my God!”. \nLast there is Peter. Who but Christ would have known that the one thing \nthat could lift up that broken heart was not a formal act of contrition\, but a \nspontaneous\, almost an exasperated cry of love? —Who but he would have \nthought of provoking the same impulsive temperament\, which had made a \ncoward of Peter with such cruel results\, to give it the courage to break out into \nthose acts of love? And\, as it was with the others\, Peter is given something to do \nfor Christ\, something that is exactly suited to his inmost need\, as it has been in \nthe case of each of the others. He is to become the shepherd. Christ shows him \nthat he knows what the sorrow for his sin has done to him\, how it has taken away \nhis cowardice\, so that he can give him even this charge\, the charge of the \nshepherd who is to protect the frailest of his flock\, his lambs…to feed them\, and \nif need be to give his life for them. Could he give greater proof of his trust in the \nreality of Peter’s love\, in the truth of Peter’s word: “Lord\, you know all things; \nyou can tell that I love You”. \nWhy we\, who are members of Christ’s body on earth\, his Church\, are so\, is \na great mystery. But the fact remains that God has chosen us for the tremendous \ndestiny of love\, and if the wonder and the joy of it is ours\, so too is the \nresponsibility of it. That responsibility is to prove to those who are still unaware \nof it that Christ has risen from the dead and that he is in the world now. We \ncannot do this without a very close imitation of Christ’s way with other people. \nChrist “knew what was in them”: that is the secret of his method; he knew and \nloved every one\, objectively and individually\, as a separate person\, a unique \nperson; he respected their otherness\, their independence\, even their slowness\, \ntheir limitations\, which were all part of the experience which was to bring them \nto the realization of his love. Christ wishes to approach people through us today \nin just the same way\, through just the same means\, as he did in his Risen Life.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-easter-wednesday/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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