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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE PILGRIM CHURCH \nFrom the documents of the Second Vatican Council \n◊◊◊ \nIn full consciousness of this communion of the whole Mystical Body of \nJesus Christ\, the Church in its pilgrim members\, from the very earliest days of \nthe Christian religion\, has honored with great respect the memory of the dead; \nand\, “because it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that \nthey may be loosed from their sins“\, she offers her suffrages for them. \nThe Church has always believed that the apostles and Christ’s martyrs\, \nwho gave the supreme witness of faith and charity by the shedding of their \nblood\, are closely united with us in Christ; she has always venerated them\, \ntogether with the Blessed Virgin Mary and the holy angels\, with a special love\, \nand has asked piously for the help of their intercession. Soon there were added \nto these others who had chosen to imitate more closely the virginity and poverty \nof Christ\, and still others whom the outstanding practice of the Christian virtues \nand the wonderful graces of God recommended to the pious devotion and \nimitation of the faithful. \nTo look on the life of those who have faithfully followed Christ is to be \ninspired with a new reason for seeking the city which is to come\, while at the \nsame time we are taught to know a most safe path by which\, despite the \nvicissitudes of the world\, and in keeping with the state of life and condition \nproper to each of us\, we will be able to arrive at perfect union with Christ\, that is\, \nholiness. God shows to us\, in a vivid way\, his presence and his face in the lives of \nthose companions of ours in the human condition who are more perfectly \ntransformed into the image of Christ. He speaks to us in them and offers us a \nsign of this kingdom\, to which we are powerfully attracted\, so great a cloud of \nwitnesses is there given and such a witness to the truth of the Gospel. \nIt is not merely by the title of example that we cherish the memory of \nthose in heaven; we seek\, rather\, that by this devotion to the exercise of fraternal \ncharity the union of the whole Church in the Spirit may be strengthened. \nExactly as Christian communion between peoples on their earthly pilgrimage \nbrings us closer to Christ\, so our community with the saints joins us to Christ\, \nfrom whom as from its fountain and head issues all grace and the life of the \nPeople of God itself. It is most fitting\, therefore\, that we love those friends and \nco-heirs of Jesus Christ who are also our brethren and outstanding benefactors\, \nand that we give due thanks to God for them\, humbly invoking them\, and having \nrecourse to their prayers\, their aid and help in obtaining from God through the \nSon\, Jesus Christ… the benefits we need.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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