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SUMMARY:Easter Weekday
DESCRIPTION:THE NEW AGE OF THE RESURRECTION\nBy Thomas Merton 4\n◊◊◊\nThe “new life\,” the life of the Spirit\, life “in Christ\,” is communicated to\nthe human spirit by the invisible Mission of the Holy Spirit — a direct\nconsequence of the Resurrection of Jesus. Therefore the “new creation”\ninstituted by the second Adam is in fact a prolongation of his Resurrection.\nThe new world which is called the Kingdom of God\, the world in which God\nreigns in us by his divine Spirit\, the world of the Second Adam is\, in fact\, the\nEon of the Resurrection — the new age that begins to dawn with the rising of\nChrist from the dead\, which reaches out to touch\, with the pure spiritual light\nof that dawning\, each soul newly incorporated into the Risen Christ\, until all\nthe elect are gathered together in him and the Kingdom is openly and\ndefinitively established without question and without opposition in the\ngeneral resurrection of all the dead.\n“If\,” says St Paul\, “by reason of the one man’s offense death reigned\nthrough the one man\, much more will they who receive the abundance of\ngrace …reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.” That is exactly the Pauline\nconcept of the Kingdom of God — a Kingdom of superabundant spiritual life\,\nin which the saints “reign in life through the one Christ.” \nTo reign in life is to have domination and autonomy by union with God\nas the source of life. It is to have and enjoy the sublime liberty of the children\nof God\, the freedom of the Spirit by which Christ has come to make us free.\nThe early Church was entirely penetrated with this doctrine of liberation\,\nplenitude and life. Wherever the authentic Christian spirit has prevailed\, it\nhas always been marked by this same perfect liberty and vitality in the Spirit.\nFor always and everywhere the Spirit of Christ teaches this message to those\nwho are his own: “For whoever are led by the Spirit of God\, they are the\nchildren of God. Now you have not received a spirit of bondage so as to be\nagain in fear\, but you have received a spirit of adoption\, by virtue of which\nwe cry\, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit himself gives testimony to our spirit that\nwe are the children of God.” \nIn this view of Christ’s role as second Adam\, establishing the final\nvictory of life over death\, we are still confronted with the ideas of death and\nlife together. The liberation from sin and death is effected by the death of\nChrist. The communication of life to our souls is effected by the resurrection\nof Christ. “Jesus… was delivered up for our sins\, and rose again for our\njustification.” We shall see that in order to enter fully into communion with\nthe life brought to us by Christ we must in some sense — sacramentally\,\nascetically\, mystically — die with Christ and rise with him from the dead. The\nwhole life of the Kingdom of God consists then in the gradual extension of\nthe spiritual effects of the death and resurrection of Jesus to one soul after\nanother until Christ lives perfectly in all whom he has called to himself. \n4  THE NEW MAN\, Thomas Merton (Farrar\, Straus & Cudahy\, NY 1961) pp. 152-154.
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