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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:BUILT ON THE COMMON LIFE \nBy Baldwin of Ford6 \n◊◊◊ \nIt is by no slight or mean or ordinary authority that the institution of the \ncommon life is supported and sustained. The primitive Church was built on the \ncommon life\, and the infancy of the newborn Church began with the common \nlife. It is from the Apostles themselves that the common life has received its \nform and expression\, its title of honor\, the privilege of its high position\, the \ntestimony of its authority\, the protection which defends it\, and the foundation \nof its hope. \nIt was the Apostles who were established by God as princes over all the \nearth; princes of the people\, gathered together with the God of Abraham; strong \ngods of the earth who are exceedingly exalted; friends of God\, who are greatly \nhonored and whose principality is greatly strengthened; nobles of heaven\, \njudges of the earth\, to whom was made the promise that they should sit on \ntwelve thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel; members of the [celestial] \nsenate\, who receive swords in their hands to execute vengeance upon the \nnations and chastisements upon the people\, to bind their kings with fetters and \ntheir nobles with manacles of iron\, to execute upon them the prescribed \njudgement. \nSuch men as these\, so powerful and so noble\, were clothed in virtue from \nabove\, and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit they undertook to observe the \ncommon life. They confirmed it by their example\, sanctioned it by their conduct\, \nand handed it down to us so that we might also keep it. Thus\, through the \ncommon life\, we who are set upon the earth can begin to be fashioned in the \n6 From Tractate 15 on the Cenobitic or Common Life\, by Baldwin of Ford (CF 41:156-157).13 \nlikeness of the angels of God\, for in the eternal life to come\, we shall be united \nwith them as their like and their equal. The common life was instituted by \ncelestial models; it was brought down from heaven and adopted by us from the \nheavenly way of life of the holy angels. \nIf the fact that the common life came down from the angels of God to the \nApostles and from the Apostles to us is still not sufficient to recommend it to \nyou\, then there is a further factor which we can add\, something beyond all \npraise: the common life flowed out from the Fount of Life itself. I am speaking \nnow of that fount of which it is written\, With you is the fount of life\, and in your \nlight we shall see light. The common life\, then\, is a sort of radiance from the \neternal light\, a sort of emanation from the eternal life\, a sort of effluence from \nthe everlasting fountain\, from which flow living waters\, springing up into \neternal life.
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