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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:From a reading by \nHANS URS VON BALTHASAR \n◊◊◊ \nThe Apostles are the founders of the Church\, officially chosen and called \nby the Lord\, whose first function will be to be eyewitnesses. They are drawn into \nliving community with the Messiah\, a relationship in which they will enjoy with \nthis man\, who is `God among us’\, a commerce that is fully human\, that engages \nboth their senses and their spirit. They are ‘those with him’\, ‘those who \naccompany him’\, and ‘those around him’. \nThis is what they are\, and they will grow more and more into this way of \nlife in the course of Jesus’ life. They constitute the original cell of God’s \ncommunity with us\, which had been promised and is now being realized. All \nthose coming after them who wish to have community with God must become a \npart of this original cell. \nThere are many others who come to the Lord\, only to go away again\, many \nothers who stay with him a while only then to leave him\, or simply others who \nhave a loose connection with him without any particular calling. By contrast\, \nthe Apostles enjoy a community with Jesus which has precise contours\, a \ncommunity which he has consciously established and maintained\, which is \nfounded on the definitive life-long renunciation of all else: it is something \nwholly formed\, distinctive in shape. And yet it is not something magical \nimposed from above\, since the son of perdition will indeed fall away; rather\, it is \nthe realization of the covenant-partnership between God and ourselves. \nEyewitness\, in turn\, is an association with the Lord in his public life\, in his \nPassion\, and in his death which is the communal\, human\, and realistic \nexperience of God which continues and fulfills the Old Testament’s promise of \nan earthly God-with-us. \nBut this phase comes to an end with Jesus’ death; the Apostles’ senses\, \naccustomed to his existence\, now fall into the void; there is no longer anything \nthere to see\, to hear\, to touch; the Apostles’ whole human experience breaks off \nwith the three days in death\, then to resume anew\, without any traceable \ncontinuity\, with Christ’s Resurrection\, at a place whose distance from the point \nof disruption can be known and measured only by God; and now\, during the \nforty days\, the association with the Lord will be experienced with wholly new \nsenses. \nThe eyewitness of the Apostles draws all its force from this last phase\, to \nbe sure; otherwise they could hardly bear witness to anything more than an \nextraordinary man who was prophetically gifted and who performed miracles. \nBut it draws its force not\, indeed\, solely from the witness of the Resurrection\, \nbut from the fact that the man who appeared to them was the same whom they \nhad known previously from long association and whom they had seen suffer and \ndie. Seeing him\, hearing him\, touching him\, observing how he eats\, the proof of \nthe wounds” all of this receives its full significance only in that light.
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