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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:TO BE RISEN WITH CHRIST \nBy Thomas Merton6 \n◊◊◊ \nThe risen life is not easy; it is also a dying life. The presence of the \nResurrection in our lives means the presence of the Cross\, for we do not rise \nwith Christ unless we also first die with him. It is by the Cross that we enter the \ndynamism of creative transformation\, the dynamism of resurrection and \nrenewal\, the dynamism of love. The teaching of St. Paul is centered entirely on \nthe Resurrection. How many Christians really understand what St. Paul is \ntalking about when he tells us that we have “died to the Law” in order to rise \nwith Christ? How many Christians dare to believe that whoever is risen with \nChrist enjoys the liberty of the sons and daughters of God and is not bound by \nthe restrictions and taboos of human prejudice? \nTo be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one \nmay live by a higher law – the law of grace and love – but that one must do so. \nThe first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all \nsuperstitions\, all blind taboos and religious formalities\, indeed from all empty \nforms of legalism. Read the Epistle to the Galatians again… Read it in the light \nof the Church’s summons to complete renewal. \nThe Christian must have the courage to follow Christ. The Christian who \nis risen in Christ must dare to be like Christ: one must dare to follow conscience \neven in unpopular causes. One must\, if necessary\, be able to disagree with the \nmajority and make decisions one knows to be according to the Gospel and \nteaching of Christ\, even when others do not understand why the person is acting \nthis way. \n“The followers of Christ are called by God not according to their \naccomplishments\, but according to God’s own purpose and grace.”… Too many \nChristians are not free because they submit to the domination of other people’s \nideas. They submit passively to the opinions of the crowd. For self-protection \nthey hide in the crowd\, and run along with the crowd – even when it turns into \na lynch mob. They are afraid of the aloneness\, the moral nakedness\, which they \nfeel apart from the crowd. \nBut the Christian in whom Christ is risen dares to think and act differently \nfrom the crowd. He has ideas of his own\, not because he is arrogant\, but because \nhe has the humility to stand alone and pay attention to the purpose and the \ngrace of God\, which are often quite contrary to the purposes and the plans of an \nestablished human power structure. If we have risen with Christ then we must \ndare to stand by him in the loneliness of his Passion\, when the entire \nestablishment\, both religious and civil\, turned against him as a modern state \nwould turn against a dangerous radical. In fact\, there were “dangerous radicals” \namong the Apostles. If we study the trial and execution of Jesus we find that he \nwas condemned on the charge that he was a revolutionary\, a subversive radical\, \nfighting for the overthrow of legitimate government. This was not true in the \npolitical sense. Jesus stood entirely outside of all Jewish politics\, because his \nKingdom was not of this world. And yet he was a “freedom fighter” in a different \nway. His death and resurrection were the culminating battle in his fight to \nliberate us from all forms of tyranny\, all forms of domination by anything or \nanyone except the Spirit\, the Law of Love\, the “purpose and grace” of God. \n  \n6 He is Risen. Thomas Merton. Argus Communications. 1975. p.18.14 \n  \n 
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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