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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Bl Martyrs of Rochefort
DESCRIPTION:A reading from the encyclical “Salvifici Doloris” by \nPOPE ST JOHN PAUL II \n◊◊◊ \nThe Cross of Christ throws salvific light\, in a most penetrating way\, on \nman’s life and in particular on his suffering. For through faith the Cross reaches \nman together with the Resurrection: the mystery of the Passion is contained in \nthe Paschal Mystery. The witnesses of Christ’s Passion are at the same time \nwitnesses of his Resurrection. Paul writes: “That I may know him (Christ) and \nthe power of his Resurrection\, and may share his sufferings\, becoming like him \nin his death\, that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead”. Truly\, \nthe Apostle first experienced the “power of the Resurrection” of Christ\, on the \nroad to Damascus\, and only later\, in this paschal light\, reached that ” sharing in \nhis sufferings”… \nThe witnesses of the Cross and Resurrection were convinced that \n“through many tribulations we must enter the Kingdom of God”… Thus to share \nin the sufferings of Christ is\, at the same time\, to suffer for the Kingdom of God. \nIn the eyes of the just God\, before his judgment\, those who share in the suffering \nof Christ become worthy of this Kingdom. Through their sufferings…they repay \nthe infinite price of the Passion and death of Christ\, which became the price of \nour Redemption: at this price the Kingdom of God has been consolidated anew \nin human history\, becoming the definitive prospect of man’s earthly existence. \nChrist has led us into this Kingdom through his suffering… To the prospect of \nthe Kingdom of God is linked hope in that glory which has its beginning in the \nCross of Christ… \nIf\, in fact\, the Cross was to human eyes Christ’s emptying of himself\, at \nthe same time it was in the eyes of God his being lifted up. On the Cross\, Christ \nattained and fully accomplished his mission: by fulfilling the will of the Father\, \nhe at the same time fully realized himself. In weakness he manifested \nhis power\, and in humiliation he manifested all his messianic greatness. Are \nnot all the words he uttered during his agony on Golgotha a proof of this \ngreatness\, and especially his words concerning the perpetrators of his \ncrucifixion: “Father\, forgive them for they know not what they do”? To those \nwho share in Christ’s sufferings these words present themselves with the power \nof a supreme example… \nIn the Paschal Mystery Christ began the union with man in the \ncommunity of the Church. The mystery of the Church is expressed in this: that \nalready in the act of Baptism\, which brings about a configuration with Christ\, \nand then through his Sacrifice — sacramentally through the Eucharist—the \nChurch is continually being built up spiritually as the Body of Christ. In this \nBody\, Christ wishes to be united with every individual\, and in a special way he is \nunited with those who suffer… Christ has in a sense opened his own redemptive \nsuffering to all human suffering. In so far as man becomes a sharer in Christ’s \nsufferings—in any part of the world and at any time in history—to that extent he \nin his own way completes the suffering through which Christ accomplished the \nRedemption of the world… Only within this radius and dimension of the Church \nas the Body of Christ\, which continually develops in space and time\, can one \nthink and speak of “what is lacking” in the sufferings of Christ.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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