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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE \nBy St John Henry Newman4 \n◊◊◊ \nJesus Christ says\, “As the Father has life in Himself\, so has He given also \nto the Son to have life in Himself;” and afterwards He says\, “Because I live\, you \nalso shall live.” It would seem then\, that as Adam is the author of death to the \nwhole human race\, so is Christ the origin of immortality. When Adam ate the \nforbidden fruit\, it was as a poison spreading through his whole nature\, soul and \nbody\, and from there through every one of his descendants. We are told \nexpressly “in Adam all die.” We are born heirs to that infection of nature which \nfollowed upon his fall. \nBut we are also told\, “As in Adam all die\, even so in Christ shall all be \nmade alive;” and the same law of God’s providence is maintained in both cases. \nAdam spreads poison; Christ diffuses life eternal. Christ communicates life to \nus\, one by one\, by means of that holy and incorrupt nature which He assumed \nfor our redemption. Therefore St. Paul says that “the last Adam was made” not \nmerely “a living soul\,” but “a quickening” or life-giving “Spirit”\, as being “the \nLord from heaven.” Let us not doubt\, though we do not sensibly approach Him\, \nthat He can still give us the virtue of His purity and incorruption\, as He has \npromised\, and in a more heavenly and spiritual manner than “in the days of His \nflesh;” in a way which does not remove merely the ailments of the body\, but \nsows the seed of eternal life in body and soul. \nLet us not deny Him the glory of His life-giving holiness\, that quickening \ngrace which is the renovation of our whole race\, a spirit quick and powerful and \npiercing\, so as to leaven the whole mass of human corruption and make it live. \nHe is the first-fruits of the Resurrection: we follow Him each in our own order\, \nas we are hallowed by His inward presence. And in this sense\, among others\, \nChrist\, in the Scripture phrase\, is “formed in us;” that is\, communication is \nmade to us of His new nature\, which sanctifies the soul\, and makes the body \nimmortal. \nSuch then is our risen Savior in Himself and towards us: — conceived by \nthe Holy Spirit; holy from the womb; dying\, but abhorring corruption; rising \nagain the third day by His own inherent life; exalted as the Son of God and Son \nof man\, to raise us after Him; and filling us incomprehensibly with His \nimmortal nature\, till we become like Him; filling us with a spiritual life which \nmay expel the poison of the tree of knowledge and restore us to God. How \nwonderful a work of grace! Strange it was that Adam should be our death\, but \nstranger still and very gracious\, that God Himself should be our life\, by means \nof that human tabernacle which He has taken on Himself. \n  \n4 Parochial and Plain Sermons. John Henry Newman. Ignatius Press. San Francisco. 1987. p.316.8 \n  \n 
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