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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:MAKE NO PROVISION \nFOR THE FLESH \nFrom a sermon by Pope St Leo the Great \n◊◊◊ \nThough we once knew Christ according to the flesh\, we now do so no \nlonger. The resurrection of the Lord did not mean the end of his flesh\, but its \ntransformation\, and his bodily substance was not consumed by its increase in \npower. The quality changed\, but the nature did not pass away. What could die \nbecame immortal\, what could be harmed became incorruptible. And so he says \ncorrectly that he no longer knows the body of Christ in its former state\, because \nthere remains nothing in it subject to suffering or to weakness. It remains \nessentially human\, but surpasses itself through the glory of the resurrection. \nIt is not surprising that Paul says this of the body of Christ\, when he says \nabout Christians who live according to the Spirit\, From now on\, we know no \none according to the flesh. From now on\, he says\, resurrection in Christ has \nbegun in us; from Christ who died for all comes the shape of all our hope. We do \nnot hold back through diffidence\, nor are we held in suspense through \nuncertainty: we have received the beginnings of what we are promised\, and see \nalready with the eyes of faith the things that will be ours. Rejoicing in the lifting \nup of our nature\, we possess already all that we believe. \nTherefore\, let us not be taken up by the appearances of things that pass\, \nnor let things which are merely of this earth turn our thoughts from the things of \nheaven. Let us take as passing those things which have even now scarcely any \nreality; and with our minds intent on those that endure\, let us fix our desire \nthere\, where what is offered is eternal. For though we are saved only in hope\, \nand carry with us still our corruptible and mortal body\, yet we rightly claim to be \nno longer in the flesh if carnal passions do not rule us: rightly do we disclaim \nallegiance to something which no longer holds us in its power. And so when the \nApostle says: “Make no provision for the flesh\, to follow its desires\, we \nunderstand that he has not forbidden those things consistent with our bodily \nhealth\, or those demanded by human weakness. But in that we are not to cater \nto all our desires\, or fulfill all that the flesh covets\, we recognize that he has \nwarned us to observe a certain measure of temperance\, that the flesh\, which is \ncreated subject to the soul\, is not given too much\, nor is denied what is \nnecessary.
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