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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE MIRACULOUS SPREAD \nOF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE \nA reading from “Against the Pagans” by St John Chrysostom3 \n◊◊◊ \nIt was…marvelous that these few ignorant\, poor\, undistinguished\, \nunlettered\, worthless men of foreign tongue were entrusted with setting straight \nthe whole world. They were commissioned to lead the world to live a far more \ndifficult life and they did not accomplish this mission at a time of peace but \nwhile countless wars were being stirred up against them from every side. And \nthis was the case in every nation and every city. \nDid I say every nation and every city? In every home a war was fanned to \nflame against them. For when their teaching entered a home\, many a time it \nsplit a son from his father\, a bride from her mother-in-law\, a brother from his \nbrother\, a servant from his master\, a subject from his ruler\, a man from his wife\, \na woman from her husband\, and a father from his children. For everybody did \nnot all at once accept the faith. Their teaching was harassed by hatred every day \nthat passed; it stirred up one war after the other and brought death to more \npeople than you could count; it had people avoiding one another as if they were \ncommon enemies and foes. \nFor everybody drove the apostles out. Emperors avoided them\, as did \nlesser rulers\, common people\, free and slave; whole peoples\, entire cities \nshunned them. Not only did they drive out the apostles but\, what is worse\, they \ndrove out those who were but newly fixed in their faith\, those whom the apostles \nhad instructed. It was one and the same war which was waged against the \napostles and their disciples\, because people saw that their teaching was opposed \nto the edicts of their emperors and their ancestral ways and customs. \nEven though the apostles told so harsh a story\, they still won people over \nto believe. This is how they built up the Church. How did they do it and by what \nmeans? They did it through the power of Him who had commanded them to do \nit. He made ready the way; he made all the hard things easy. If it were not the \npower of God which accomplished this\, the Church would not have had a \npreface\, much less a beginning. \nHow could all this be done? It was God who said: “Let there be heaven\,” \nand showed forth his work; it was God who said: “Let the earth be founded\,” \nand he produced its substance; it was God who said: “Let the sun shine\,” and he \nshowed forth the star; it was God who caused all things to be. And it was the \nsame God who planted the Church. And that word: “I will build my Church” is \nwhat produced all this. For this is the power of the words of God. They create \nworks which are wondrous beyond our expectation. God said: “Let the earth \nproduce the grassy plant\,” and suddenly everything was a garden\, everything \nbecame a meadow; the earth heard God’s command and plumed itself with \nplants beyond number. In the same way God later said: “I will build my \nChurch\,” and this was done with the greatest of ease. \n  \n3 St. John Chrysostom\, Apologist. Catholic University of America Press\, 1983\, pp. 242-243.7 \n  \n 
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