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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:NO ONE CAN SERVE \nTWO MASTERS \nFrom a sermon by St Leo the Great \n◊◊◊ \nDuring Lent our aim was to experience some share in the sufferings of the \ncross and to enter into the mystery of the Lord’s passion by taking up our cross \nand following him along the way of his humiliation and endurance. Now\, during \nEastertide\, the accent is on sharing his resurrection. Not for any merit of our \nown\, but through the blood of Christ and the free gift of God’s grace\, we have \nbeen healed and set free. What the Lord asks of us now is not to try to earn this \nfreedom\, but to hold fast to what he has already given us and to guard it from the \ndevil’s envy. \nIn the Lord Jesus we have passed over from death to life\, but while we are \nstill on earth his Passover must be continually renewed in us. We have to be \ndead to Satan and alive to God; we have to abandon sin in order to rise to \nholiness. Jesus himself said: “No one can serve two masters”. Our business is to \nmake sure that the master we serve is the Lord who has raised up the fallen to \nglory\, not the one who brought the upright to ruin…. \nIt was his will to die for us\, but death could not keep him. The body that \nwas laid in the tomb and the soul that descended to the world of the departed \nwere the body and soul of the Son of God. Through his own will they were \nseparated when he bowed his head on the cross and gave up his spirit; through \nhis divine power they were reunited on the third day. The gospels tell us of the \nrolling away of the stone\, the empty tomb\, the linen cloths\, the angel witnesses\, \nand the Lord’s appearances to the women and to the apostles. All this evidence \nformed the basis for the preaching of the faith throughout the whole world. \nNot only did Jesus speak with his disciples\, but he ate with them\, allowing \nthem to touch him and to probe his wounds. He entered the upper room when \nthe doors were shut and greeted them with the words “Peace be with you”— \npeace to quiet their troubled hearts and to assure them of the unfailing \nconstancy of his love and forgiveness. To bring God’s love and forgiveness to the \nworld had been his mission from the Father; now he passed on that mission to \nhis apostles. “As the Father sent me\,” he told them\, “so I send you. Receive the \nHoly spirit. If you forgive men’s sins\, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive \nthem\, they are not forgiven”. \nPatiently he went through the scriptures with them to show them \neverything that had been written about him in the Old Testament\, how it had \nbeen ordained from the beginning that the Messiah should suffer and so enter \ninto his glory. After this he showed them the wound in his side and the marks of \nthe nails. By his own choice he had retained these scars in his body in order to \nheal the wounds of their unbelieving minds. Now they knew with absolute \ncertainty that the risen body\, radiantly alive in their midst\, was the same body \nthat had been born in Bethlehem and had suffered on the cross. From now on it \nwould be seated with God the Father on his heavenly throne.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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