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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THIS NEW WORLD \nBy Pierre Benoît \n◊◊◊ \nWhen inspired writings speak of Christ seated at the right hand of the \nFather\, they are obviously only using anthropomorphic images which have no \nvalue except their symbolic reference. Commentators have always recognized \nthis. Similarly\, when scripture shows us Christ exalted above all the heavens\, it \nsimply means to indicate that he dominates our present cosmos\, and it would be \nuseless to try and define Christ’s position in relation to the “final sphere.” The \ndoctors of scholasticism\, still bound to Aristotle’s system\, could go too far in this \ndirection; yet the greatest of them\, a Saint Thomas for example\, were able to \nkeep a wise and prudent reserve on this point. \nThe essential teaching of scripture\, which is to be retained by our faith\, is \nthat Christ\, through his resurrection and ascension\, departed from this present \nworld\, a world corrupted by sin and destined for destruction\, and entered the \nnew world where God reigns as master and where matter is transformed\, \npenetrated\, and dominated by the Spirit. It is a world that is real with a physical \nreality\, like Christ’s body itself\, and which therefore occupies a “place\,” but a \nworld which exists as yet only in promise\, or rather in its embryo\, the single \nrisen body of Christ\, and which will be definitively constituted and revealed only \nat the end of time\, when the “new heavens” and the “new earth” are to appear. \nWhile waiting for that day\, the glorious body of Christ exists somewhere\, \nreal\, much more real than our perishable world\, because it alone possesses true \nlife\, but it is useless to ask “where\,” just as it is mistaken to imagine it far away. \nThis new world\, where Christ reigns and awaits us\, is not far away\, it is not \noutside our world\, it transcends it. It is of another order\, is distinguished in \nterms of quality rather than of quantity\, and we have access to it through faith \nand the sacraments\, in a contact which is mysterious but more real and more \nclose than any contact with our present world can be. \nWhen we say and believe with the Church that the glorified Christ has \nascended to heaven and is seated beside his Father\, we mean by this that he \nhas penetrated forever into the new\, final\, spiritual world\, of which he is the \nfirst cell\, a world which is inaccessible to our senses and our imagination\, but \nwhich is supremely real\, much more real than the everyday world about us. \nAnd we believe readily\, with the mass of the earliest Christian witnesses\, that \nhe inaugurated this new world on the day of his resurrection\, when he was \nrapt from the tomb by the Spirit to be exalted next to the Father.
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