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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:From the Catechesis of \nST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM \n◊◊◊ \nIf we wish to understand the power of Christ’s blood\, we should go back to \nthe ancient account of its prefiguration in Egypt. “Sacrifice a Lamb without \nblemish\, commanded Moses\, and sprinkle its blood on your doors.” If we were \nto ask him what he meant\, and how the blood of an irrational beast could \npossibly save men endowed with reason\, his answer would be that the saving \npower lies not in the blood itself\, but in the fact that it is a sign of the Lord’s \nblood. In those days\, when the destroying angel saw the blood on the doors he \ndid not dare to enter\, so how much less will the devil approach now when he \nsees\, not that figurative blood on the doors\, but the true blood on the lips of \nbelievers\, the doors of the temple of Christ. \nIf you desire further proof of the power of this blood\, remember where it \ncame from\, how it ran down from the cross\, flowing from the Master’s side. The \ngospel records that when Christ was dead\, but still hung on the cross\, a soldier \ncame and pierced his side with a lance and immediately there poured out water \nand blood. Now the water was a symbol of Baptism and the blood\, of the holy \nEucharist. The soldier pierced the Lord’s side\, he breached the wall of the sacred \ntemple\, and I have found the treasure and made it my own. So also with the \nlamb: the Jews sacrificed the victim and I have been saved by it. \n“There flowed from his side water and blood.” Beloved\, do not pass over \nthis mystery without thought\, it has yet another hidden meaning\, which I will \nexplain to you. I said that water and blood symbolized Baptism and the holy \nEucharist. From these two sacraments the Church is born: from Baptism\, “the \ncleansing water that gives rebirth and renewal through the Holy Spirit\,” and \nfrom the holy Eucharist. Since the symbols of Baptism and the Eucharist flowed9 \nfrom his side\, it was from his side that Christ fashioned the Church\, as he had \nfashioned Eve from the side of Adam. Moses gives a hint of this when he tells the \nstory of the first man and makes him exclaim: “Bone from my bones and flesh \nfrom my flesh!” As God then took a rib from Adam’s side to fashion a woman\, so \nChrist has given us blood and water from his side to fashion the Church. God \ntook the rib when Adam was in a deep sleep\, and in the same way Christ gave us \nthe blood and the water after his own death. \nDo you understand\, then\, how Christ has united his bride to himself and \nwhat food he gives us all to eat? By one and the same food we are both brought \ninto being and nourished. As a woman nourishes her child with her own blood \nand milk\, so does Christ unceasingly nourish with his own blood those to whom \nhe himself has given life.
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