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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nFR LOUIS BOUYER \n◊◊◊ \nIt is not purely and simply by dying that we shall live\, but by dying such a \ndeath that it kills death itself – and it is only the death of Christ that can do that. \nFor it is not the life of the mortal body which has injured the life of the soul. It is\, \non the contrary\, the death of the soul which has injured the body and made it \nmortal. Life will be won back by the resurrection\, not of the soul alone\, but of the \nhuman being in its unity\, inseparably body and soul. And if the passage through \ndeath can lead to the resurrection\, it is only in as much as the soul\, which has \nbecome alive again in Christ\, has been made capable of burning away the death \nof the body as with a red-hot iron and of causing it to evaporate in its own flame. \nThe monk goes forward to meet death because he believes that this \nmiracle\, the greatest of all\, has been accomplished in the death of Christ: \nbecause he believes that Christ was Life\, the very Life of God\, and that in making \nphysical death his own\, he has robbed the evil one of all his power and all his \nempire which are annihilated by this very act. Again he goes forward to meet \ndeath because he believes that Christ now and for the future lives in him: and \nfinally because he believes that what has taken place in Christ will be \nreproduced in himself\, in the same manner. \nThe death of the monk\, so desired and sought after day after day\, is then \nonly the supreme evidence of his faith\, his faith in Christ vanquishing death in \nhimself\, his faith in Christ present in his followers to vanquish it in them. The \nmonk’s mortification is ultimately nothing more than his witness given to \nChrist\, the witness of his faith\, which makes it clear that it is not only an \nintellectual thing but an engagement of the whole being.
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