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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Mary \, Mother of God
DESCRIPTION:THE PERFECT CHRISTIAN \nFrom the book “Mary\, Mother of the Lord” by Fr Karl Rahner \n◊◊◊ \nWhat is perfect Christianity? Perfect Christianity must consist in \nreceiving this gift of the eternal God\, God himself\, in grace-given freedom\, with \nbody and soul and all the powers of the whole being\, with all one is and has\, all \none does and suffers\, so that this receiving of God takes up our entire nature and \nour whole life-history into the eternal life of God. Perfect Christianity must \nmean that our public and our private acts\, what appears publicly before the \nworld in its history\, and what takes place in the inner depths of conscience\, \nperfectly coincide and correspond. \nWhat occurs there in the depths of Christian life becomes visible\, and \nconversely\, what is visible and manifest\, truly mirrors what is taking place in the \ndepths of the soul\, in God’s presence. Christianity in its perfection must also \nmean that this Christian’s perfect Christianity unconditionally serves the \nsalvation of others\, and is only really perfect if it is actually devoted to all\, from \nthe beginning to the end of time. \nIf that is what perfect Christianity is\, then we can and must say that Mary \nis the actual realization of it\, the perfect Christian. If Christianity in its perfect \nform is the pure acceptance of the salvation of the eternal triune God that has \nappeared in Jesus Christ\, Mary is the perfect Christian\, the Christian human \nbeing exemplified as such\, because in the faith of her spirit and in her blessed \nwomb\, with body and soul\, then\, and all the powers of her being\, she received \nthe eternal Word of the Father. If perfect Christianity is the perfect \ncorrespondence between outward mission in the history of salvation and \npersonal life\, it is perfectly realized in Mary. She received visibly and tangibly \nthe Incarnate Word of the eternal Father\, and so she is the most significant and \nrepresentative figure among the merely human beings in the externally visible \nhistory of redemption. And at the same time she accepted fully and realized in \nher personal life her unique office in the economy of redemption\, with an \nabsolutely unconditional total consent in faith. \nIf Christianity is the radiating influence of one’s own grace in unselfish \nservice for the salvation of others\, Mary is the most perfect instance of what it \nmeans to be a Christian\, for it was the salvation of us all\, Jesus Christ our Lord\, \nwhom she conceived by the consent of her faith and in the physical reality of her \ndivine motherhood.
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