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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Thursday after Ash Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:WE ADORE YOUR CROSS \nBy Aemiliana Löhr \n◊◊◊ \n[Today] the veil is taken off the cross and tearful thanksgiving fills the \nChurch’s voice as she offers the cross to the people and calls out\, “Look upon the \nwood of the cross.” \nThe cross is set up now\, no longer on Mount Calvary in front of the gates \nof that Jerusalem\, but on the altar of the New Jerusalem. No longer is there a \ncrush about it of blaspheming soldiers and Pharisees\, but a reverent assembly of \nGod’s people which still\, in this moment of greatest sadness\, receives a delicate \nanticipation of the joy of resurrection to come\, a sort of consolation from the \ncross. “We adore your cross\, O Lord\, and we praise and glorify your holy \nresurrection; for behold\, through the cross joy came into the whole world.” \nThis is a characteristic of the Church’s deepest attitude\, not only in the \nliturgy\, but in her whole life as well. She goes with the incarnate Lord through \ntime\, carrying the cross with him. Again and again she sees his blood poured out \nby godless people\, and the precious life of God’s anointed done to death; for in \nher members the Lord himself dies. Good Friday goes on for her throughout the \nworld’s age\, and thickest darkness is still before her. But she does not complain \nor flinch; like Jesus\, she makes no complaint. When death comes she dies with a \ncry to God\, certain of the witness she is giving and the life she is to receive. \n[The Church’s] life is a life of carrying the cross\, a continual dying. But her \nvoice is a joyful voice; her liturgy celebrates life. In reality she suffers death but \nlives already in the resurrection. Her food is the food of immortality: the body of \nthe risen Christ. She cannot founder. Rather\, …she stands alone in the decline of \nthis world\, daily subject to death and [yet] daily awakened to life. She prays with \nupraised hands for her murderers\, and in the sign of the cross she calls for joy on \nbehalf of a tortured world. Indeed\, in the posture of her prayer and the complete \noneness she has now with the Lord\, she herself becomes the cross\, and of her\, it \nwill be said till the end of time and eternity\, “Through the cross joy came into the \nwhole world.”
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-thursday-after-ash-wednesday/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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