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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODIES \nFrom a sermon by Ronald Knox3 \n◊◊◊ \nI am content to think of my present body as merely the inadequate symbol \nof that body which will be mine in eternity. A symbol\, yes; but we must remind \nourselves again\, it isn’t merely a kind of book token\, entitling me to the \npossession of a body in eternity; it is rather a kind of cloak-room ticket\, entitling \nme to the possession of my body in eternity. Our Lord’s Resurrection meant \nan empty tomb; our Lord’s Ascension meant\, presumably\, the disappearance \nfrom earth of a certain quantum of matter which had previously been part of \nearth. If it is going to be possible to establish identity between that body of \nyours which will lie in the cemetery\, and that body of yours which will\, we hope\, \nattain the enjoyment of heaven\, aren’t we going to land ourselves in rather \ndifficult physical speculations to account for it? …What is certain is that the \nthing\, whatever it is\, which expresses itself here and now in terms of a mass of \nmatter about six feet high\, will persist\, although it may be expressed in quite \ndifferent terms\, in that order of creation\, whatever it be\, which will succeed \nwhen the material creation itself has passed away. \nThe practical importance of that truth for us is\, I take it\, that as Christians \nwe are bound to think of our bodies as part of ourselves\, as included not only in \nthe scheme of our creation but in the scheme of our redemption\, as having…a \nsupernatural importance\, and as demanding reverence in our treatment of \nthem. We look forward\, as St Paul says\, to the redemption of our bodies; they \nare not encumbrances which we drag about with us\, they are first-fruits of \neternity\, entrusted to our keeping… \nIf you lean towards Eastern spiritualism\, you will find yourself talking\, \nlike the man in that poem of Lyall’s\, about your body as if it were something \nthat didn’t matter; it “is a garment no more fitting\, is a tent that I am quitting\, \nis a snare\, from which at last\, like a hawk\, my soul hath passed“. If you lean \ntowards Western materialism\, you will find yourself talking about your body as \nif it were the only thing that mattered\, like that poem of Housman’s\, “The \nImmortal Part”\, which ends up: “And leave with endless night alone the \nsteadfast and enduring bone“. If you avoid both those excesses\, you will find \nyourself talking like Thomas a’ Kempis: \nAh\, frail body\, earth forsaking\, \nIn what glory wilt thou rise\, \nPassing fair in thy remaking\, \nStrong and whole and swift and wise\, \nFree\, and joy in freedom taking\, \nFramed for life that never dies! \nUp\, and stir thee\, onward spur thee; \nWhat\, though toil be hard to bear\, \nIf God’s grace shall count thee worthy \nThose unguessed rewards to share? \nBrief the pains that shall prefer thee \nTo eternal glory there \n  \n3 University Sermons\, Ronald Knox. Palm Publishers\, 1963. p.299\, 301-2.7 \n  \n 
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