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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS \nFrom a sermon by St John Henry Newman \n◊◊◊ \nWhen we commemorate the quickening or vivifying of the Church\, the \nbirth of the spiritual and new creature out of an old world “as good as dead\,” it \nwill be seasonable to consider the nature and attributes of this Church\, as \nmanifested in the elect\, as invisible\, one\, living and spiritual; or what is \notherwise called the Doctrine of the Communion of Saints with each other\, and \nin the Holy Trinity\, in whom their communion with each other consists. \nViewed so far as it merely consists of persons now living in this world\, it is \nof course a visible company; but in its nobler and truer character it is a body \ninvisible\, or nearly so\, as being made up\, not merely of the few who happen still \nto be on their trial\, but of the many who sleep in the Lord. At first\, indeed\, in the \nlifetime of the Apostles\, a great proportion of the whole body was in this world; \nthat is\, not taking into account those Saints\, who had lived in Jewish times\, and \nwho Christ\, on His departure\, made partakers of the privileges then purchased \nby His death for all believers. \nSt Stephen and St James the Greater were the first distinguished Saints of \nthe New Covenant\, who were gathered in to enrich the elder company of Moses\, \nElias\, and their brethren. But from that time they have flowed in space; and as \nyears passed away\, greater and greater has become the proportion which the \nassembly of spirits made perfect bears to that body militant which is its \ncomplement in God’s new creation. At present\, we who live are but one \ngeneration out of fifty\, which since its formation have been new born into it\, and \nendowed with spiritual life and the hope of glory. \nNow these thoughts are so very foreign from the world’s ordinary view of \nthings\, which walks by sight\, not by faith\, and never allows any thing to exist in \nwhat comes before it\, but what it can touch and handle\, that it is necessary to \ninsist and enlarge upon them. The world then makes itself the standard of \nperfection and the center of all good; and when the souls of Christians pass from \nit into the place of spirits\, it fancies that this is their loss\, not its own.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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