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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - SS Philip & James
DESCRIPTION:THE APOSTOLIC WITNESS \nBy Jean Frisque \n◊◊◊ \nThey were still talking about all this when he himself stood among them \nand said to them\, “Peace be with you!” \nThe preeminent witnesses to the resurrection of Christ were the apostles. \nFrom the time of Jesus’ baptism to his death\, they accompanied him in his \npublic ministry. His death on the cross at the first threw them into a panic\, but \nsoon afterwards it clarified everything for them\, once it had been placed in its \nScriptural context\, through the aid of the resurrected Christ himself. \nBut was the testimony of the apostles limited to this single well-founded \nassertion: He whom you crucified has risen from the dead through the power of \nGod? In reality\, there was much more: the apostles did not only offer an \neyewitness account of an event but the testimony of their faith. Only their faith \nenabled them to discover why the death on the cross was the key-event of \nsalvation-history and in what way it led to the life of the resurrection. And theirs \nwas not simply any faith\, but faith in the paschal experience itself\, the faith \nwhich had perceived that in Jesus Christ all people were called to share in the \ndivine filiation and to contribute on their own behalf to the construction of the \nKingdom. \nNor was this all. The witness which the apostles rendered to the \nresurrection of Christ was above all an authorized witness. The apostles had \nreceived from the resurrected Christ himself their power to testify validly to \nhim. They had received the Holy Spirit\, the Spirit of the resurrected Christ. Thus \nthe very life of the resurrected Christ was given to the apostolic group\, and the \nChurch which they would construct in his name would be animated by this same \nlife. The Church was to be the temple of the Holy Spirit\, and the life which \ncirculated in her would testify until the end of time to the resurrection of her \nHead! \nThus we can see why the apostolic witness rendered to the resurrected \nChrist was inseparable from the life which animated the first Christian \ncommunity. This witness was necessarily communal. The preaching in which \nthis witness took shape was absolutely inseparable from the grace of \ncommunion given to the primitive community and its efforts to be entirely \nfaithful to the law of universal charity. \nToday’s Christians are not wrong\, therefore\, when they insist upon the \nimportance of the testimony of their life. But the life to which they must witness \nin order to testify to the resurrected Christ is the life of Christ himself. This life is \ndisplayed here on earth by the way of total obedience unto death for the love of \nall people\, for such an obedience leads us constantly from death to life. Such a \nsign can only be displayed by the Church herself.
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