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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:DEATH AND THE MONK \nFrom “The Meaning of Monastic Life” by Louis Bouyer1 \n◊◊◊ \nIt is not purely and simply by dying that we shall live\, but by dying such a \ndeath that it kills death itself and it is only the death of Christ that can do that. For \nit is not the life of the mortal body which has injured the life of the soul. It is\, on \nthe contrary\, the death of the soul which has injured the body and made it mortal. \nLife will be won back by the resurrection\, not of the soul alone\, but of the human \nbeing in its unity\, inseparably body and soul. And if the passage through death can \nlead to the resurrection\, it is only in as much as the soul\, which has become alive \nagain in Christ\, has been made capable of burning away the death of the body as \nwith a red-hot iron and of causing it to evaporate in its own flame. \nThe monk goes forward to meet death because he believes that this miracle\, \nthe greatest of all\, has been accomplished in the death of Christ: because he \nbelieves that Christ was Life\, the very Life of God\, and that in making physical \ndeath his own\, he has robbed the evil one of all his power and all his empire which \nare annihilated by this very act. Again\, he goes forward to meet death because he \nbelieves that Christ now and for the future lives in him: and finally\, because he \nbelieves that what has taken place in Christ will be reproduced in himself\, in the \nsame manner. \nThe death of the monk\, so desired and sought after day after day\, is then only \nthe supreme evidence of his faith\, his faith in Christ vanquishing death in himself\, \nhis faith in Christ present in his followers to vanquish it in them. The monk’s \nmortification is ultimately nothing more than his witness given to Christ\, the \nwitness of his faith\, which makes it clear that it is not only an intellectual thing but \nan engagement of the whole being.
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