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SUMMARY:Easter Thursday
DESCRIPTION:THE BEGINNING OF GLORY \nBy Fr Karl Rahner5 \n◊◊◊ \nIf someone had already lit the fuse for a tremendous explosion\, but was \nstill waiting for the explosion which will follow with dreadful certainty\, they \ncertainly would not say that the lighting of the fuse was an event of the past. \nThe beginning of an event which is still in course of development but is moving \ninexorably and irresistibly towards its culmination\, is not past but is a kind of \npresent\, and already contains its future; it is a movement which continues by \ncomprising past and present in a…real unity. These concepts must be clear if \nwe are to attempt to say something meaningful about our Lord’s resurrection. \nEaster is not the celebration of a past event. The alleluia is not for what \nwas; Easter proclaims a beginning which has already decided the remotest \nfuture. The resurrection means that the beginning of glory has already started. \nAnd what began in that way is in process of fulfilment. Does it take long? It \nlasts thousands of years because at least that short space of time is needed for \nan incalculable plenitude of reality and history to force itself through the brief \ndeath-agony of a gigantic transformation (which we call natural history and \nworld history) to its glorious fulfilment. Everything is in movement. Nothing \nhas an abiding place here. \nWe are gradually finding out\, at least in outline\, that nature has its own \norientated history\, that nature is in movement\, that it develops and unfolds in \ntime and by an incomprehensible self-transcendence behind which there stands \nthe creative power of God\, attains every higher level of reality. We are gradually \nrealizing that human history has its purposeful course and is not merely the \neternal return of the identical… that the nations are summoned in a certain \nsequence and have each their definite historical mission; that history in its \ntotality has its pattern and an irreversible direction. \nBut what is the goal of this whole movement in nature\, history and spirit? \nIs everything advancing towards a collapse\, to meaninglessness and \nnothingness? Are we only going to lose our way? Is what happens ultimately \nonly the demonstration of the emptiness and hollowness of all things\, which are \nunmasked in the course of the history of nature and the world? Are all the \ncomedies and tragedies of this history mere play-acting which can only \ndeludedly be taken seriously while they are still going on and are not yet played \nout? \nWe Christians say that this whole history of nature and humankind has a \nmeaning\, a blessed and transfigured\, all-embracing meaning\, no longer mixed \nwith meaninglessness and darkness\, a meaning which is infinite reality and \nunity comprising all possibilities and glory in one. And when we invoke the \nabsolute meaning in this way\, we call it God. God as he is in himself is the goal \nof all history. He himself is at hand. All the streams of change in us flow \ntowards him; they are not lost in the bottomless void of nothingness and \nmeaninglessness. But when we say this\, when we declare infinity to be the \nmeaning of the finite\, eternity the meaning of time and God himself (by grace) \nto be the purport of his creature\, we are not speaking simply of a distant\, not \nyet wholly realized ideal\, which we hope vaguely may be realized one day but \nwhich for the moment and for an incalculable time is still a distant future \nexisting only in thought. No\, we say Easter\, resurrection. That means\, it has \nalready begun\, the definitive future has already started. \n  \n5 Everyday Faith. Karl Rahner. Herder & Herder 1968\, pp. 71-72.11 \n  \n 
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