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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Teresa Benedict
DESCRIPTION:THE EUCHARIST \nAS A MEANS OF SALVATION \nFrom an essay by St Edith Stein1 \n◊◊◊ \nChrist’s suffering and death are continued in His mystical Body and in \neach of His members. Everyone must suffer and die. But if that person is a \nliving member of the Body of Christ\, their suffering and death will receive \nredemptive power from the divinity of the Head. This is the objective reason \nwhy all the saints have desired to suffer. This is not a pathological pleasure in \nsuffering. It is true\, to natural reason it appears as a perversion. But in the light \nof the mystery of salvation it shows itself to be highly reasonable. And thus\, the \none who is united to Christ will remain unmoved even in the dark night of \nfeeling estranged from\, and abandoned by God. Perhaps divine providence is \nusing his agony to deliver another\, who is truly a prisoner cut off from God. \nTherefore\, we will say: “Thy will be done” even\, and particularly so\, in the \ndarkest night… For God has come to redeem us\, to unite us to Himself and to \neach other\, to conform our will to His. He knows our nature. He reckons with \nit\, and has therefore given us every help necessary to reach our goal… \nThe Savior\, knowing that we are and remainA men who have daily to \nstruggle with our weaknesses\, aids our humanity in a manner truly divine. Just \nas our earthly body needs its daily bread\, so the divine life in us must be \nconstantly fed. “This is the living bread that came down from heaven”. If we \nmake it truly our daily bread\, the mystery of Christmas\, the Incarnation of the \nWord\, will daily be re-enacted in us. And this\, it seems\, is the surest way to \nremain in constant union with God\, and to grow every day more securely and \nmore deeply into the mystical Body of Christ…13 \nIs it really demanding too much to make room in our life for the \nEucharistic Savior\, so that He may transform our life into His own? We have \ntime for so many useless things: we read senseless rubbish in books\, periodicals \nand newspapers… All these are distractions by which one wastes time and \nstrength… \nThus\, being a child of God means to become small and at the same time \nto become great. Living eucharistically means quite naturally to leave the \nnarrowness of one’s own life and to grow into the breadth of the Christ life… \nWho could assist at the Holy Sacrifice with a receptive mind and heart and not \nbe filled with the sacrificial spirit\, burning with the desire that his own small \npersonal life should be merged into the great work of the Savior?
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