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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE MANY SECRET \nRESURRECTIONS \nFrom “The Risen Christ” by Caryll Houselander \n◊◊◊ \nChrist seems to have fallen in love with our suffering\, so passionately has \nhe laid hold of it and made it his. He is known to the whole world as the Man of \nSorrows. Yet he came to give us life\, life full of joy. It was not with our suffering \nthat Christ fell in love\, but with us. He identified himself so wholly with our \nsuffering\, because our lives are necessarily made up of it. It is the inescapable \nconsequences of sin. No one can escape it; everyone must somehow either make \nfriends with suffering or be broken by it. No one can come close to another\, let \nalone love him\, without coming closer to his suffering. Christ did far more\, he \nwed himself to our suffering\, he made Death his bride\, and in the \nconsummation of his love\, he gave her his life. Christ has lived each of our lives\, \nhe has faced all our fears\, suffered all our griefs\, overcome all our temptations\, \nlabored in all our labors\, loved in all our loves\, died all our deaths. \nHe took our humanity\, just as it is\, with all its wretchedness and ugliness\, \nand gave it back to us just as his humanity is\, transfigured by the beauty of his \nliving\, filled full of his joy. He came back from the long journey through death\, \nto give us his Risen Life to be our life\, so that no matter what suffering we meet\, \nwe can meet it with the whole power of the love that has overcome the world. “I \nhave said this to you\, so that in me you may find peace. In the world\, you will \nonly find tribulation; but take courage\, I have overcome the world“. \nHe has come back as spring comes back out of the ground\, renewing the \nearth with life\, to be a continual renewing of life in our hearts\, that we may \ncontinually renew one another’s life in his love\, that we may be his Resurrection \nin the world. We are the resurrection\, going on always\, always giving back \nChrist’s life to the world. \nIn every life there are many secret resurrections. In our sin\, we are the \ntombs in which Christ lies dead\, but at the first movement of sorrow for sin he \nrises from the dead in us\, the life of the world is renewed by our sorrow\, the soul \nthat was in darkness radiates the morning light. In the moment that we are \nforgiven\, the world is flooded with forgiveness. No wonder that angels rejoice \nwhen one sinner does penance more than over the ninety-nine who need no \npenance\, for the resurrection in the soul of the sinner is complete. It is not just \nthe poor sinner licking his wounds and limping on\, crippled by the past; it is \nChrist risen\, alive\, whole.
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