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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST \nBy Thomas Merton4 \n◊◊◊ \nThe “new life“\, the life of the Spirit\, life “in Christ“\, is communicated to \nthe human spirit by the invisible Mission of the Holy Spirit – a direct \nconsequence of the Resurrection of Jesus. Therefore the “new creation“ \ninstituted by the second Adam is in fact a prolongation of his Resurrection. The \nnew world which is called the Kingdom of God\, the world in which God reigns in \nus by his divine Spirit\, the world of the Second Adam is\, in fact\, the Eon of the \nresurrection – the new age that begins to dawn with the rising of Christ from the \ndead\, which reaches out to touch\, with the pure spiritual light of that dawning\, \neach soul newly incorporated into the Risen Christ\, until all the elect are \ngathered together in him… \n“If\,” says St Paul\, “by reason of the one man’s offense death reigned \nthrough the one man\, much more will they who receive the abundance of \ngrace…reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.” That is exactly the Pauline \nconcept of the Kingdom of God – a Kingdom of superabundant spiritual life\, in \nwhich the saints “reign in life through the one Christ.” \nTo reign in life…is to have and enjoy the sublime liberty of the children of \nGod\, the freedom of the Spirit by which Christ has come to make us free. The \nearly Church was entirely penetrated with this doctrine of liberation\, plenitude \nand life. Wherever the authentic Christian spirit has prevailed\, it has always \nbeen marked by this same perfect liberty and vitality in the Spirit. For always \nand everywhere the Spirit of Christ teaches this message to those who are his \nown: “For whoever are led by the Spirit of God\, they are the children of God.“ \nIn this view of Christ’s role as second Adam\, establishing the final victory \nof life over death\, we are still confronted with the ideas of death and life \ntogether. The liberation from sin and death is effected by the death of Christ. \nThe communication of life to our souls is effected by the resurrection of Christ. \n“Jesus…was delivered up for our sins\, and rose again for our justification.” We \nshall see that in order to enter fully into communion with the life brought to us \nby Christ we must in some sense – sacramentally\, ascetically\, mystically – die \nwith Christ and rise with him from the dead. The whole life of the Kingdom of \nGod consists then in the gradual extension of the spiritual effects of the death \nand resurrection of Jesus to one soul after another until Christ lives perfectly in \nall whom he has called to himself. \n4 THE NEW MAN\, Thomas Merton (Farrar\, Straus & Cudahy\, NY 1961) pp. 152-154.9
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