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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST LEO THE GREAT \n◊◊◊ \nI rejoice\, dearly beloved\, in the pious affection of your devotion\, and I give \nthanks to God that I see in you the love of Christian unity. For your very \npresence here testifies that you understand that the annual return of this day is \na matter for common rejoicing; and that in celebrating the annual festival of the \nShepherd\, you are honoring the whole flock. For though the universal Church is \nordered in varying degrees\, so the whole is made up from the diverse members \nof the sanctified Body\, we are all\, nevertheless\, as the Apostle says\, one in \nChrist; and no one is separated by office from another\, so that even the least \namong us is related to the head. \nTherefore\, Beloved\, in its unity of faith and baptism\, our society is \nundivided\, and its dignity is the dignity of all its members; according to the \nwords of the blessed Peter\, spoken by his own consecrated voice: Be you as \nliving stones built up\, a spiritual house\, a holy priesthood\, to offer up spiritual \nsacrifices\, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. And a little later: You are a \nchosen generation\, a kingly priesthood\, a holy nation\, a purchased people. \nFor all who are born again in Christ\, the sign of the Cross makes kings\, \nand the anointing of the Holy Spirit consecrates priests; so that apart from the \nspecial service of our ministry\, let all spiritual and reasoning Christians know \nthat they are of royal birth\, and sharers of the priestly office. For what is so \nkingly as the soul that is subject to God\, and the ruler of its own body? \nAnd what is so priestly as to dedicate to the Lord a pure conscience\, and to \noffer him on the altar of our hearts the unstained gift of our love? And since by \nGod’s grace this has been given to us all\, it is for you a devout and praiseworthy \nthing to rejoice on the day of our coronation as though the honor were your own.
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