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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:CHRIST IS THE DOOR \nFrom “Symbols of Christ” by Dom Damasus Winzen \n◊◊◊ \nTo pass through a door is an initiation and a consecration\, because it \nmeans to leave behind the past and to enter a new life. To the Romans of old\, the \nvictorious army\, by marching through the arch of triumph\, was cleansed of past \noffenses and consecrated to a new era of peace. For the people of the Old \nTestament\, the temple gate of Jerusalem took the place of the arch of triumph. \nNo armies marched through it\, but the festive throngs of the pilgrims \napproached it in solemn procession on the Feast of the Tabernacles. Their \nsummons rang out to the warders: “This is the gate of the Lord. The righteous \nshall enter into it!” \nThe real door to the Messianic era\, however\, is not made of stone. It is the \nliving heart of the Saviour. The very shape of the door indicates salvation \nthrough Christ\, because its two side-posts\, holding up the lintel\, form a gallows- \nshaped cross. Every wall effects a separation between those within\, whom it \nprotects\, and those without\, whom it excludes. Walls\, therefore\, are needed \nonly in a world where enmity exists between those who share in the blessedness \nof a common life and those who are strangers and exiles. The door\, however\, \npierces the wall\, and unites the two groups – in the power of the cross. \nAfter the earth had been cursed\, and enmity placed between the serpent \nand the woman\, Paradise was walled off from the rest of the world. But the gate \nremained\, guarded by the cherub with the flaming sword – waiting for the time \nof man’s re-entrance. God also hid his Holy Presence behind the walls of the \ntemple\, but a door remained\, through which\, once a year\, the high priest was \nallowed to enter the Holy of Holies. \nWhen Christ extended his hands on the Cross he became the Door \nthrough which the wall of separation between God and ourselves was opened. \nThe cherub at the gate of Paradise put away his sword when God’s Eternal Love\, \nhanging on the Cross\, said to the good thief: “This day you shall be with me in \nParadise!” When Christ gave up the spirit\, the curtain of the Holy of Holies was \nrent\, to indicate that we can “enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus.” \nChrist is the Door through which we have access to the Father\, because he is the \nsacrificial victim which reconciles us in one body to God\, so that we are citizens \nwith the saints and members of God’s household. \nThis Door was foreshadowed in the door of Noah’s ark\, which\, \nsignificantly enough\, “was set in the side thereof”; the Door was opened when \nthe lance of the soldier pierced the side of Jesus. We enter through this Door by \nbeing baptized into the Death and Resurrection of Christ\, through which we are \ncleansed from past offenses and consecrated as children of the Heavenly Father.
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