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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St John of the Cross
DESCRIPTION:LOVE OF THE CROSS \nFrom an essay by St Edith Stein \n◊◊◊ \nWe hear repeatedly that St. John of the Cross desired nothing for himself but \nto suffer and be despised. We want to know the reason for this love of suffering. Is \nit merely the loving remembrance of the path of suffering of our Lord on earth\, a \ntender impulse to be humanly close to him by a life resembling his? This does not \nseem to correspond to the lofty and strict spirituality of the mystical teacher. And \nin relation to the Man of Sorrows\, it would almost seem that the victoriously \nenthroned king\, the divine conqueror of sin\, death and hell is forgotten. Did not \nChrist lead captivity captive? Has he not transported us into a kingdom of light and \ncalled us to be happy children of our heavenly Father? \nThe sight of the world in which we live\, the need and misery\, and the abyss \nof human malice\, again and again dampens jubilation over the victory of light. The \nworld is still deluged by mire\, and still only a small flock has escaped from it to the \nhighest mountain peaks. The battle between Christ and the Antichrist is not yet \nover. The followers of Christ have their place in this battle\, and their chief weapon \nis the cross… \nThe entire sum of human failures from the first Fall up to the Day of \nJudgment must be blotted out by a corresponding measure of expiation. The way \nof the cross is this expiation. The triple collapse under the burden of the cross \ncorresponds to the triple fall of humanity: the first sin\, the rejection of the Savior \nby his chosen people\, the falling away of those who bear the name of Christian… \nThe Savior is not alone on the way of the cross… The archetype of followers \nof the cross for all time is the Mother of God. …Everyone who\, in the course of time\, \nhas borne an onerous destiny in remembrance of the suffering Savior or who has \nfreely taken up works of expiation has by doing so canceled some of the mighty \nload of human sin and has helped the Lord carry his burden.… The disciples\, both \nmen and women\, who surrounded [the Savior] during his earthly life\, assist him \non the second stretch. The lovers of the cross whom he has awakened and will \nalways continue to awaken anew in the changeable history of the struggling \nchurch\, these are his allies at the end of time. We\, too\, are called for that purpose… \nBut because being one with Christ is our sanctity\, and progressively \nbecoming one with him our happiness on earth\, the love of the cross in no way \ncontradicts being a joyful child of God. Helping Christ carry his cross fills one with \na strong and pure joy\, and those who may and can do so\, the builders of God’s \nkingdom\, are the most authentic children of God. And so those who have a \npredilection for the way of the cross by no means deny that Good Friday is past \nand that the work of salvation has been accomplished. Only those who are saved\, \nonly children of grace\, can in fact be bearers of Christ’s cross. Only in union with \nthe divine Head does human suffering take on expiatory power. To suffer and to \nbe happy although suffering\, to have one’s feet on the earth\, to walk on the dirty \nand rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father’s \nright hand\, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly sing \nthe praises of God with the choirs of angels — this is the life of the Christian until \nthe morning of eternity breaks forth \n  \n5 from The Hidden Life\, volume 4 of The Collected Works of Edith Stein\, edited by L. Gelber and Michael Linnsen; ICS Publications\, 1992\, pp. 91-93.11 \n 
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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