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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Nativity of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:FROM THE CRIB TO THE CROSS \nBy St Edith Stein \n◊◊◊ \nGod has come to redeem us\, to unite us to Himself and to each other\, to \nconform our will to His. He knows our nature. He reckons with it\, and has \ntherefore given us every help necessary to reach our goal. \nThe divine Child has become a teacher and has told us what to do. In \norder to penetrate a whole human life with the divine life it is not enough to \nkneel once a year before the crib and let ourselves be captivated by the charm of \nthe holy night. To achieve this\, we must be in daily contact with God\, listening \nto the words he has spoken and which have been transmitted to us\, and obeying \nthem. We must\, above all\, pray as the Savior Himself has taught us so \ninsistently. “Ask and it shall be given you”. This is the certain promise of being \nheard. And if we pray every day with all our heart: “Lord\, they will be done” we \nmay well trust that we shall not fail to do God’s will even when we no longer have \nsubjective certainty. \nMore: Christ has not left us orphans. He has sent His Spirit\, who teaches \nus all truth. He has founded his Church which is guided by His Spirit\, and has \nordained in it His representatives by whose mouth His Spirit speaks to us in \nhuman words. In His Church He has united the faithful into one community \nand wants them to support each other. Thus we are not alone\, and if the \nconfidence in our own understanding and even in our own prayer fails us\, the \npower of obedience and intercession will assist us. \n“And the word was made flesh”. This became reality in the stable of \nBethlehem. But it has also been fulfilled in another form. “He who eats my flesh \nand drinks my blood has eternal life”. The Savior\, knowing that we are and \nremain men who have daily to struggle with our weaknesses\, aids our humanity \nin a manner truly divine. Just as our earthly body needs its daily bread\, so the \ndivine life in us must be constantly fed. “This is the living bread that came down \nfrom heaven”. If we make it truly our daily bread\, the mystery of Christmas\, the \nIncarnation of the Word\, will daily be re-enacted in us. And this\, it seems\, is the \nsurest way to remain in constant union with God\, and to grow every day more \nsecurely and more deeply into the mystical Body of Christ. \nThe Christian mysteries are an indivisible whole. If we become immersed \nin one\, we are led to all the others. Thus the way from Bethlehem leads \ninevitably to Golgotha\, from the crib to the Cross. When the blessed Virgin \nbrought the Child to the temple\, Simeon prophesied that her soul would be \npierced by a sword\, that this Child was set for the fall and the resurrection of \nmany\, for a sign that would be contradicted. His prophecy announced the \nPassion\, the fight between light and darkness that already showed itself before \nthe crib.
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