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SUMMARY:Vigils: Easter Weekday
DESCRIPTION:THE CRUCIAL CHALLENGE\nOF OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH\nBy Thomas Merton 3\n◊◊◊\nThe season of Lent summoned us to change our hearts\, to effect in ourselves the Christian metanoia…awakening in us perhaps some sense of that existential “dread” of the creature whose freedom suspends him over an abyss which may be an infinite meaninglessness\, and unbounded despair… \nBut now the power of Easter has burst upon us with the resurrection of Christ. Now we find in ourselves a strength which is not our own\, and which is freely given to us whenever we need it\, raising us above the Law\, giving us a new law which is hidden in Christ: the law of his merciful love for us. Now we no longer strive to be good because we have to\, because it is a duty\, but because our joy is to please him who has given all his love to us! Now our life is full of meaning. \nEaster is the hour of our own deliverance – from what? Precisely from Lent and from its hard Law which accuses and judges our infirmity. We are no longer under the Law. We are delivered from the harsh judgment! Here is all the greatness and all the unimaginable splendor of the Easter mystery. Here is the “grace” of Easter which we fail to lay hands on because we are afraid to understand its full meaning. To understand Easter and live it\, we must renounce our dread of newness and of freedom! \nDeath exercises a twofold power in our lives: it holds us by sin\, and it holds us by the Law. To die to death and live a new life in Christ we must die not only to sin but also to the Law.\nEvery Christian knows that he must die to sin. But the great truth that St Paul exhausted himself to preach in season and out is a truth that we Christians have barely grasped\, a truth that has got away from us\, that constantly eludes us and has continued to do so for twenty centuries. We cannot get it into our heads what it means to be no longer slaves of the Law. And the reason is that we do not have the courage to face this truth which contains in itself the crucial challenge of our Christian faith\, the great reality that makes Christianity different from every other religion. \n3\nNew York: Farrar\, Straus & Giroux\, 1965\, pp. 145-146.
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