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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Irenaeus
DESCRIPTION:WHERE THE CHURCH IS\, \nTHERE IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD \nFrom the writing of St Irenaeus6 \n◊◊◊ \nIt is within reach of all who want to see the truth to discern the tradition \nof the apostles which has been manifested in the whole world. All we have to do \nis to list those who are appointed bishops in the churches by the apostles and \ntheir successors up to our own time who neither taught nor recognized anything \nlike that which the heretics rave about. For even if the apostles would have \nknown “secret mysteries” which they used to teach the “perfect” separately and \nsecretly apart from the others\, they would especially have passed these things \ndown to those to whom they also were entrusting the churches themselves. For \nthey wanted those whom they left as successors to be quite perfect and beyond \nreproach in all things\, handing over to them their own place as teachers. To \nthose who do what is right this would have great usefulness\, but to those who \nfall away it would be great disaster… \nThe preaching of the church is consistent everywhere and persists equally \nand has behind it the testimony of the prophets and the apostles and all the \ndisciples through the beginning\, middle\, and end and through the whole saving \nplan of God and that solid system which is in our faith which lends itself to \nhuman salvation. We keep what we have received from the church and what is \nalways from the Spirit of God like some precious deposit growing in a good vase \nwhich also makes the vase it is in to grow. For this gift of God has been entrusted \nto the church\, like the breath of creation\, so that all the members receiving it \nmay be made alive. And in it has been deposited the means of communicating \nwith Christ\, that is\, the Holy Spirit\, the…confirmation of our faith and ladder of \nascent to God. “For in the Church\,” [Scripture] says\, “God has appointed \napostles\, prophets\, teachers”\, and all the other working of the Spirit. All who do \nnot gather with the church but defraud themselves of life through evil thought \nand worse deed do not participate in the Spirit. For where the church is\, there \nis the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is\, there is the church and every \ngift; and the Spirit is truth. Accordingly\, those who do not participate in the \nSpirit are not nourished unto life by the mother’s breasts nor do they receive \nthat brilliant fountain which flows from the Body of Christ. Rather\, they dig for \nthemselves broken cisterns in dirty ditches and they drink putrid water from \nthe dirt\, fleeing the faith of the church\, lest they be convicted\, rejecting the Spirit \nthat they may not be instructed. \n  \n6 UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHURCH\, Edited by Glenn Hinson (Fortress Press\, Phila. PA\, \n1986) pp. 40-42.12 \n 
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