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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Friday
DESCRIPTION:WITNESSES OF \nTHE RESURRECTION \nFrom a sermon by St John Henry Newman \n◊◊◊ \nIt might have been expected that\, on our Savior’s rising again from the \ndead\, He would have shown Himself to very great numbers of people\, and \nespecially to those who crucified Him; whereas we know from history that\, far \nfrom this being the case\, He showed Himself only to chosen witnesses\, chiefly \nHis immediate followers… This seems at first sight strange. We are apt to fancy \nthe resurrection of Christ as some striking visible display of His glory\, such as \nGod showed from time to time to the Israelites in Moses’ day; and considering it \nin the light of a public triumph\, we are led to imagine the confusion and terror \nwhich would have overwhelmed His murderers had He presented Himself alive \nbefore them. Now\, to reason in this way is to conceive Christ’s kingdom of this \nworld\, which it is not; and to suppose that then Christ came to judge the world\, \nwhereas that judgment will not be till the last day\, when in very deed those \nwicked men shall “look on Him whom they have pierced“. \nAfter His resurrection\, Jesus said to His disciples\, “Go\, convert all \nnations“. This was His special charge. If\, then\, there are grounds for thinking \nthat\, by showing Himself to a few rather than to many\, He was more surely \nadvancing this great object\, the propagation of the Gospel\, this is sufficient \nreason for our Lord’s having so ordained. Now consider what would have been \nthe probable effect of a public exhibition of His resurrection. Let us suppose that \nour Savior had shown Himself as openly as before He suffered: preaching in the \nTemple and in the streets of the city; traversing the land with His Apostles\, and \nwith multitudes following to see the miracles which He did. What would have \nbeen the effect of this? Of course\, what it had already been. His former miracles \nhad not effectively moved the body of the people; and\, doubtless\, this miracle \ntoo would have left them as it found them\, or worse than before. They might \nhave been more startled at the time; but why should this amazement last? \nWhen the man taken with a palsy was suddenly restored at His word\, the \nmultitude were all amazed and glorified God\, and were filled with fear saying\, “ \nWe have seen strange things this day.” What could they have said and felt more \nthan this\, when “one rose from the dead“? In truth\, this is the way of most \npeople in all ages\, to be influenced by sudden fears\, sudden contrition\, sudden \nearnestness\, sudden resolves\, which disappear just as suddenly. Nothing is \naccomplished effectively through untrained human nature; and such is always \nthe condition of the multitude. Unstable as water\, it cannot excel. One day it \ncried Hosanna; the next\, Crucify Him. \nAnd\, had our Lord appeared to them after they had crucified Him\, of \ncourse they would have shouted Hosanna once more; yet when He had \nascended out of sight\, then again they would have persecuted His followers… \nSurely so it would have been; the chief priests would not have been moved at all; \nand the populace\, even though they had been moved at the time\, would not have \nbeen moved in a lasting way\, nor in a practical way\, so as to proclaim to the \nworld what they had heard and seen\, as to preach the gospel. The very reason \nwhy Christ showed Himself at all was in order to raise up witnesses to His \nresurrection\, ministers of His word\, founders of His Church; and how in the \nnature of things could a populace ever become such?
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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