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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:From the writing of \nFR ROMANO GUARDINI \n◊◊◊ \nWhat are “Apostles” really? Frankly; the impression we get from the New \nTestament hardly permits us to claim that these men were great or ingenious in \nthe worldly sense. It is difficult even to count them “great religious \npersonalities\,” if by this we mean bearers of inherent spiritual talents. John and \nPaul were probably exceptions\, but we only risk misunderstanding them both \nby overstating this. On the whole\, we do “Apostles” no service by considering \nthem great religious personalities. This attitude is usually the beginning of \nunbelief. Personal importance\, spiritual creativeness\, dynamic faith are not \ndecisive in their lives. What counts is that Jesus Christ has called them\, pressed \nhis seal upon them\, and sent them forth. \n“You have not chosen me\, but I have chosen you\, and have appointed you \nthat you should go and bear fruit”. Apostles then are those who are sent. It is \nnot they who speak\, but Christ in them. In his first Corinthian [letter] Paul \ndistinguishes nicely between the instructions of “the Lord” and what he\, Paul\, \nhas to say. The Lord’s words are commands; his own\, suggestions. Each apostle \nis filled with Christ\, saturated with thought of Christ; the Lord\, whom they \nrepresent\, is the substance of their life. What they teach is not what they have \nlearned from personal “experience” or “revelation\,” it is God’s word\, uttered \nupon God’s command: “Go\, therefore\, and make disciples of all nations \nteaching them to observe all that I have commanded you”. \nTo this end alone have the apostles been called\, and their very limitations \nseem an added protection to the truth they bear. When Jesus says: “I praise \nyou\, Father\, Lord of heaven and earth\, that you have hidden these things from \nthe wise and prudent\, and have revealed them to little ones”\, it is an outburst of \njubilation over the unutterable mystery of God’s love and creative glory. \nSpiritually\, the apostles are seldom more than “little ones;” [and it is] precisely \nthis [that] guarantees the purity of their role as messenger. \nTo be nothing in oneself\, everything in Christ; to be obliged to contain \nsuch tremendous contents in so small a vessel; to be a constant herald with no \nlife of one’s own; to forego once and forever the happy unity of blood and heart \nand spirit in all one does and is—something of the trials of such an existence \ndawns on us when we read the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians\, of that \nPaul who experienced so deeply the simultaneous greatness and \nquestionableness of apostledom: “For I think God has set forth us the apostles \nlast of all\, as men doomed to death\, seeing that we have been made a spectacle \nto the world\, and to angels\, and to men… We are reviled and we bless\, we are \npersecuted and we bear it\, we are maligned and we entreat\, we have become \nas the refuse of this world\, as the offscouring of all\, even until now!”
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