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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:FEAR AND HOPE \nFrom the writing of Michael Schmaus2 \n◊◊◊ \nTo understand God’s call as one of love does not do away with the \nawesomeness of death; even the faithful anticipate it with fear. Indeed\, the \nelement of fear in the believer is liable to be stronger than in the atheist or \nnihilist\, who has resolved to his own satisfaction the problem of what comes \nafter death and is chiefly disturbed by the knowledge the one must abandon a \nwork which one has begun\, leaving something unfinished. The believer\, \nhowever\, sees in death the moment of encounter with God\, that moment \ntowards which the person has been journeying\, in an anticipation never free of \ntension\, during one’s whole lifetime. As the person awaits the judgment God \nwill pronounce\, anxiety can be overcome only in a loving confidence. The \ndeath of the faithful Christian is a death in the Lord. It is a death which will not \nbring condemnation\, since no one who lives and has faith in Christ will ever \ndie. \nAlthough God is an impenetrable mystery\, the person of faith perceives \nthe meaning of the divine summons in a way that prevents one from falling \ninto despair. When the time had come for him to take leave of his disciples\, \nChrist said: “Trust in God always; trust also in me.” In that hour Christ gave \nhis own assurance that they would have life\, and have it abundantly. He never \npromised them an untroubled existence within time\, but only a life of joy in \nGod. Thus anxiety is changed into tremulous expectation: the Lord comes. In \nthe First Letter of John\, Jesus’ exhortation to his disciples to have confidence \nin the Father and in himself is made explicit when he says: “There is no room \nfor fear in love; perfect love banishes fear. For fear brings with it the pains of \njudgment\, and anyone who is afraid has not attained to love in its perfection.” \nSo\, in the face of death\, there remains to everyone only trust and hope with \nwhich to meet the unavoidable fear of death. \n  \n2 Dogma 6\, Justification & the Last Things. Michael Schmaus\, Sheed & Ward\, 1977\, pp.220-221.5 \n  \n  \n  \n 
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