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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading test3
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading from a commentary on an Easter hymn of St. Gregory of Nazianzen\, by St. Dorotheus of Gaza. 1 \nThis is the Day of Resurrection. \nLet us offer God its first-fruits — which is ourselves. \nLet us\, as his most precious children\, return to the likeness [of God]\, \nWhat is truly his likeness in us. \nLet us reverence our worth. \nLet us honor our Exemplar. \nLet us come to understand the power of the ‘mystery’ wherein Christ died. \n  \nThe Israelites of old\, coming together for their festivals\, according to the Law offered God gifts such as incense\, burnt offerings\, first-fruits\, and the like. St. Gregory invites us too to celebrate this feast in God’s honor as they did\, and exhorts us to do so by saying\, “This is the Day of Resurrection”\, a day to replace all their holy feasts\, a day of divine assembly\, the day of Christ’s Passover. What is this Passover of Christ? The Israelites kept the Passover when they came out of Egypt. Easter\, the Passover which we are now keeping and which the Saint commends to our celebration\, is enacted in the soul\, which comes out of the spiritual Egypt\, that is\, from sin. When the soul passes over from sin to virtue\, then it celebrates the Passover of the Lord\, As Evagrius says: “The Passover of the Lord is the passage away from evil.” \n  \nToday… is therefore the ‘Passover’ of Christ\, a day of brilliant festival\, the day of Resurrection\, the day of his nailing sin to the Cross\, of his dying and being raised to life—all for our sakes. Let us offer ourselves as sacrificial gifts and holocausts to the Lord\, who has no desire for senseless animals. “You did not desire irrational sacrifices and offerings\, and are not pleased with burnt offerings of sheep and cattle” (Ps 40.6\, Heb 10.5-6). …What sort of gift ought we offer to Christ in order to please him on the day of his Resurrection\, if he does not desire the sacrifice of senseless animals? \n  \nThe Saint in his teaching tells us the answer\, for after saying “This is the Day of Resurrection”\, he adds\, “Let us offer up its first-fruits\, which is ourselves.” The Apostle [Paul] too instructs us: “Offer up your own bodies as a living sacrifice\, holy and well-pleasing to God\, the worship that your reason dictates” (Rom 12.1). \n  \nHow then ought we to make an offering of our bodies as a living sacrifice to God? “By no longer following our physical desires and our own ideas\,” but “walking in the spirit and not fulfilling the desires of the flesh”(Gal 5.16). “For this is to mortify our earthly members” (Col 3.5). This is what is meant by a living sacrifice\, holy and well-pleasing to God. \n  \nBut why a living sacrifice? Because an animal destined for sacrifice\, by the very fact that it becomes a sacrificial victim\, dies. But the saints who offer themselves to God\, offer themselves alive\, every day—as David says\, “For your sake we are put to death all the day long\, we are considered as sheep for the slaughter” (Ps 44.22). …By not loving the world or what is in the world [but by] taking up the Cross and following Christ and crucifying the world to themselves and themselves to the world… this is how the saints put themselves to death. \n  \nBut how did they offer themselves up? By not living for themselves\, but reducing themselves to servitude to God’s commandments and putting away their own will for the sake of the command and love of God and their neighbor.. As St. Peter says\, “Behold\, we have given up everything and followed you” (Mt 19.27). …This is how the saints offered themselves up\, putting themselves to death… in regard to all their passionate desires and doing their own will and living solely for Christ and his commandments. \n  \nSo then for us! Let us offer ourselves as St. Gregory teaches us. For he wants us to be “God’s most precious children.” \n1 Dorotheus of Gaza\, “Commentary on an Easter Hymn of St. Gregory Nazianzen\,\,” Discourses and Sayings (Cistercian Studies Series 33)\, Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian Publications\, 1977\, pp. 220 ff.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 18th Sun ORD test
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nA Commentary on the Gospel of Luke by St Basil the Great [1] \n  \n“The land of a rich man produced abundant harvests\, and he thought to himself: What am I to do? I will pull down my barns\, and build larger ones.” \nNow why did that land bear so well\, when it belonged to a man who would make no good use of its fertility? It was to show more clearly the forbearance of God\, whose kindness extends even to such people as this. He sends rain on both the just and unjust\, and makes the sun rise on the wicked and the good alike.  \nBut what do we find in this man? A bitter disposition\, hatred of other people\, unwillingness to give. This is the return he made to his Benefactor. He forgot that we all share the same nature; he felt no obligation to distribute his surplus to the needy. His barns were full to the bursting point\, but still his miserly heart was not satisfied. Year by year he increased his wealth\, always adding new crops to the old. The result was a hopeless impasse: greed would not permit him to part with anything he possessed\, and yet because he had so much there was no place to store his latest harvest. And so he is incapable of making a decision and could not escape from his anxiety. What am I to do? \nWho would not pity a man so oppressed? His land yields him no profit but only sighs: it brings him no rich returns\, but only cares and distress and a terrible helplessness. He laments in the same way as the poor do. Is not his cry like that of one hard pressed by poverty? What am I to do? How can I find food and clothing? \nYou who have wealth\, recognize who has given you the gifts you have received. Consider yourself\, who you are\, what has been committed to your charge\, from whom have you received it\, why have you been preferred to most other people? You are the servant of the good God\, a steward on behalf of your fellow servants. Do not imagine that everything has been provided for your own stomach. Take decisions regarding your property as though it belonged to another. Possessions give you pleasure for a short time\, but then they will slip through your fingers and be gone\, and you will be required to give an exact account pf them. \nWhat am I to do? It would have been so easy to say: “I will feed the hungry\, I will open my barns and call in all the poor. I will imitate Joseph in proclaiming my good will toward everyone. I will offer the generous invitation: “Let anyone who lacks bread come to me. You shall share\, each according to need\, in the good things God has given me\, just as though you were drawing from a common well. \n[1] Journey with the Fathers – Year C – New City Press – 1994 – pg 104
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading -St Andrew Kim Taegon
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nLove and perseverance are the crown of faith: a reading  \nfrom the final exhortation of Andrew Kim Taegon\, priest and martyr. [1] \n  \n  \nMy brothers and sisters\, my dearest friends\, think again and again on this: God has ruled over all things in heaven and on earth from the beginning of time; then reflect on why and for what purpose he chose each one of us to be created in his own image and likeness. \n  \nIn this world of perils and hardship if we did not recognize the Lord as our Creator\, there would be no benefit either in being born or in our continued existence. We have come into this world by God’s grace; by that same grace we have received baptism\, entrance into the Church\, and the honor of being called Christians. Yet what good will this do us if we are Christians in name alone and not in fact? We would have come into the world for nothing\, we would have entered the Church for nothing\, and we would have betrayed even God and his grace. It would be better never to have been born than to receive the grace of God and then to sin against him. \n  \nLook at the farmer who cultivates his rice fields. In season he plows\, then fertilizes the earth; never counting the cost\, he labors under the sun to nurture the seed he has planted. When harvest time comes and the rice crop is abundant\, forgetting his labor and sweat\, he rejoices with an exultant heart. But if the crop is sparse and there is nothing but straw and husks\, the farmer broods over his toil and sweat and turns his back on that field with a disgust that is all the greater the harder he has toiled. \n  \nThe Lord is like a farmer and we are the field of rice that he fertilizes with his grace and by the mystery of the incarnation and the redemption irrigates with his blood\, in order that we will grow and reach maturity. When harvest time comes\, the day of judgment\, those who have grown to maturity in the grace of God will find the joy of adopted children in the kingdom of heaven; those who have not grown to maturity will become God’s enemies and\, even though they were once his children\, they will be punished according to their deeds for all eternity. \n  \nDearest brothers and sisters: when he was in the world\, the Lord Jesus bore countless sorrows and by his own passion and death founded his Church; now he gives it increase through the sufferings of his faithful. No matter how fiercely the powers of this world oppress and oppose the Church\, they will never bring it down. Even since his ascension and from the time of the apostles to the present\, the Lord Jesus has made his Church grow even in the midst of tribulation. \n  \nFor the last fifty or sixty years\, ever since the coming of the Church to our own land of Korea\, the Faithful have suffered persecution over and over again. Persecution still rages and as a result many who are friends in the household of the faith\, myself among them\, have been thrown into prison and like you are experiencing severe distress. Because we have become the one Body\, should not our hearts be grieved for the members who are suffering? Because of the human ties that bind us\, should we not feel deeply the pain of our separation? But\, as the Scriptures say\, God numbers the very hairs of our head and in his all-embracing providence he has care over us all. Persecution\, therefore\, can only be regarded as the command of the Lord or as a prize he gives or as a punishment he permits. \n  \nHold fast\, then\, to the will of God and with all your heart fight the good fight under the leadership of Jesus; conquer again the diabolical power of this world that Christ has already vanquished. I beg you not to fail in your love for one another\, but to support one another and to stand fast until the Lord mercifully delivers us from our trials. There are twenty of us in this place and by God’s grace we are so far all well. If any of us is executed\, I ask you not to forget our families. I have many things to say\, yet how can pen and paper capture what I feel? I end this letter. As we are all near the final ordeal\, I urge you to remain steadfast in faith\, so that at last we will reach heaven and there rejoice together. I embrace you all in love. \n[1] Pro Corea Documenta\, ed. Mission Catholique Seoul (Seoul-Paris\, 1938) v. 1\, pp. 74-75; trans. in NCCB Newsletter\, v. 21\, August/September 1985.
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