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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST ANASTASIUS OF ANTIOCH \n◊◊◊ \nChrist\, who had shown by his words and actions that he was truly God and \nLord of the universe\, said to his disciples as he was about to go up to Jerusalem: \nWe are going up to Jerusalem now\, and the Son of Man will be handed over to \nthe Gentiles and the chief priests and scribes to be scourged and mocked and \ncrucified. \nThese words bore out the predictions of the prophets\, who had foretold \nthe death he was to die in Jerusalem. From the beginning Holy Scripture had \nforetold Christ’s death\, the sufferings that would precede it\, and what would \nhappen to his body afterward. Scripture also affirmed that these things were \ngoing to happen to one who was immortal and incapable of suffering because he \nwas God. \nOnly by reflecting upon the meaning of the incarnation can we see how it \nis possible to say with perfect truth both that Christ suffered and that he was \nincapable of suffering\, and why the Word of God\, in himself incapable of \nsuffering\, came to suffer. In fact we could have been saved in no other way\, as \nChrist alone knew and those to whom he revealed this truth. For he knows all \nthe secrets of the Father\, even as the Spirit penetrates the depths of all \nmysteries. \nIt was necessary for Christ to suffer: his Passion was absolutely \nunavoidable. He said so himself when he called his companions dull and slow to \nbelieve because they failed to recognize that he had to suffer and so enter into \nhis glory. Leaving behind him the glory that had been his with the Father before \nthe world was made\, he had gone forth to save his people. This salvation\, \nhowever\, could be achieved only by the suffering of the author of our life\, as Paul \ntaught when he said that the author of our life himself was made perfect \nthrough suffering. \nBecause of us he was deprived of his glory for a little while\, the glory that \nwas his as the Father’s only begotten Son\, but through the Cross this glory is \nseen to have been restored to him in a certain way in the body that he had \nassumed. Explaining what water the Saviour referred to when he said: He that \nhas faith in me shall have rivers of living water flowing from within him\, John \nsays in his Gospel that he was speaking of the Holy Spirit which those who \nbelieved in him were to receive\, for the Spirit had not yet been given because \nJesus had not yet been glorified. The glorification he meant was his death upon \nthe Cross for which the Lord prayed to the Father before undergoing his \nPassion\, asking his Father to give him the glory that he had in his presence \nbefore the world began.
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