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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE FIRST AND THE SECOND \nRESURRECTION \nBy Blessed Guerric of Igny \n◊◊◊ \n“Blessed and holy is he who has a share in the first resurrection”. “I am the \nresurrection and the life”\, Jesus said. He indeed is the first resurrection; he is \nalso the second resurrection. For rising from the dead as the first fruits of those \nwho sleep\, Christ both brings about for us the first resurrection by the mystery \nof his own resurrection and by the example of that same resurrection will bring \nabout for us the second. The first is that of souls\, when he raises them together \nwith himself to newness of life; the second will be that of bodies\, when he forms \nthis humbled body of ours anew\, molding it into the image of his glorified body. \nChrist does well then to proclaim himself the resurrection and the life \nsince it is through him and into him that we rise in order to live according to him \nand with him; now according to him in holiness and justice\, afterwards with him \nin happiness and glory. Now the first resurrection of our Head\, the Lord Jesus \nChrist\, is the cause and the proof of the second resurrection\, which will be that \nof his whole body. So also for each of us the first resurrection of the soul\, by \nwhich it comes to life again from the death of sin\, is the proof and the cause of its \nsecond resurrection\, by which the body will be freed not only from corruption of \ndeath but also from every tendency to corruption and death. That the one is the \nproof and cause of the other St Paul shows clearly in the words: “If the Spirit of \nChrist who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you\, he will give life also to your \nperishable bodies on account of his Spirit who dwells in you”. \nIt is well said then: “Blessed and holy is he who has a share in the first \nresurrection”. Holy\, that is\, on account of the first\, which he has already \nobtained through the renewal of his soul; blessed on account of the second\, \nwhich he happily awaits when his body is restored. The reason for his \nblessedness is indicated by the same passage of Scripture\, which goes on: “Over \nthese (who have a share\, that is\, in the first resurrection)\, the second death has \nno power\, even if the first death has seemed to exercise its dominion over them \nfor a passing hour. For death has reigned from Adam to Moses\, even over those \nwho did not sin according to the likeness of Adam’s transgression. But as with \nChrist so with the Christian; rising from the dead\, he dies no more; death has no \nmore dominion over him. \nSo over those blessed neither has the second death any power nor will the \nfirst keep the power\, which it had for a time. For the one death of Christ \ntriumphed over both of ours\, setting free from the one those who were already \nits captives\, from the other\, those who would be its captives. It prevented us \nfrom falling into the one\, from remaining in the other. How true\, how devout \nand at the same time how magnificent is that threat he uttered as he died: “I will \nbe your death\, O death”. How fittingly and wonderfully he triumphed who \ntasted death on behalf of all and so swallowed up his own death and all the dying \nof all humanity. Free from fear he may mock at it\, whomever that blessed man is \nwho has a share in the first resurrection: “Where is your victory\, death? Where \nis your sting\, death?”
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