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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE RESURRECTION OF ALL FLESH \nFrom “The Eternal Year” by Fr Karl Rahner2 \n◊◊◊ \nWe children of the earth may love the earth; we must love her\, even when \nshe terrifies us and makes us tremble with her misery and her destiny of death. \nFor ever since Christ\, through his death and resurrection\, penetrated the earth \nfor all time\, her misery has become provisional and a mere test of our faith in \nher innermost mystery\, which is the risen One himself. Our experience does not \ntell us that he is the mysterious meaning of her misery; by no means! It is our \nfaith that tells us this. The faith that offers blessed consolation to all that we \nexperience in life\, the faith that can love the earth because she is\, or is in the \nprocess of becoming\, the “body” of the risen One. \nWe do not need to leave her\, for the life of God dwells in her. When we \nwant both the God of infinity (how can we help wanting him?) and the familiar \nearth\, as it is and as it shall become\, when we want both for our eternally free \nhomeland\, there is one path to both! For in the resurrection of the Lord\, God \nhas shown that he has accepted the earth for all time… The flesh is the hinge of \nsalvation. \nThe hereafter to every exigency of sin and death is not somewhere in the \nlife hereafter; it has come down to us and lives in the innermost reality of our \nflesh. The most sublime religiosity of seclusion from the world would not fetch \nthe God of our life and the salvation of this earth from the distance of his \neternity; and it would not even reach him in his world. But he himself has come \nto us. And he has transformed what we are and what we still want to consider \nas the gloomy\, earthly dwelling place of our “spiritual nature”: he has \ntransformed the flesh. Ever since that event\, mother earth bears nothing but \ntransformed children. For his resurrection is the beginning of the resurrection \nof all flesh. \nOne thing\, of course\, is necessary for this event – which we can never undo \n– to become the blessedness of our existence: he must burst forth from the grave \nof our hearts. He must rise from the core of our being\, where he is as power and \npromise. He is there\, and yet something remains to be done. He is there\, yet it \nis still Holy Saturday\, and it will continue to be Holy Saturday until the last day\, \nuntil that day that will be the cosmic Easter. And this rising takes place beneath \nthe freedom of our faith. It is taking place as an event of living faith that draws \nus into the colossal eruption of all earthly reality into its own glorification\, the \nsplendid transfiguration that has already begun with the resurrection of Christ. \n  \n2 The Eternal Year\, Helicon Press: Baltimore MD 1964. pp.93-95.5 \n  \n 
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