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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:From the writing of \nDOM DAMASUS WINZEN \n◊◊◊ \nThe fact that the Church is rather a gift of the Spirit than the fruit of \nhuman endeavor gives to the apostolic Church a unique position in the history \nof the Church\, and makes the Acts of the Apostles of vital importance to the \nChristians of all ages. We people of the “century of progress” do not look into \nthe past to find there the pattern for the future. Accustomed as we are to think in \nterms progress\, any beginnings bear to us the mark of imperfection. The life of \nthe Church\, however\, is not ruled by the laws of human progress. Not being built \nup from the ground\, but descending from above\, the growth of the Church is like \nthat of a seed\, the gradual unfolding of a fundamental structure which is wholly \npresent already in the initial stage. \nThe risen Christ is the “seed” out of which the Church grows as an \noverflow of his abundance. From Christ the Church receives the divine life in the \nvessel of the sacraments\, to be administered\, not to be produced. From Christ \nshe receives the full light of revelation as an unalterable deposit\, to be handed \ndown\, not to be invented. The risen Christ sends to his Church the fullness of the \nHoly Spirit so that St Peter can truly state\, on the very day when the Church is \nborn\, that this outpouring of the Spirit is the fulfillment of an event which\, as \nJoel had announced\, would come about “in the last days”. The apostolic Church \nis the Church of “the first love”. The apostles who govern her are endowed with a \nfullness of grace never to be given to any of their successors. \nThe Church is built\, once and forever\, upon “the foundation of the \napostles”. For this reason the history of the Church is to a large extent the \nhistory of “reformations”. Again and again the Church has returned to the \napostolic pattern. \nTo restore the spirit of the apostolic Church in its original purity and zeal \nwas the avowed purpose of all the great saints and reformers. The Rule of St \nBenedict is nothing but an attempt to reestablish the ideal apostolic Church \nwithin the confines of a monastery. St Francis\, St Dominic\, St Ignatius and the \ngreat number of their followers received the inspiration for their Orders from \nthe Acts of the Apostles. The apostolic Church remains a model for our times \ntoo; not that we want to turn back the wheel of history and copy the external \nforms of a past age\, which is impossible\, but because we realize that the waters \nof the Holy Spirit are nowhere as pure as at their source.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-421/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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