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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:COME\, LORD JESUS \nBy Fr Johannes Pinsk \n◊◊◊ \nAdvent means coming\, the coming of the Lord. If we want to celebrate \nAdvent with the Church\, we must first seek to understand what this means: \n“God is coming.” the word “coming” may be regarded as one of the primordial \nwords in the language of religion\, for if religion is the loving and unifying \nencounter with God\, it can only be realized when God comes. Unfortunately the \nsame thing happens with God’s coming to us as with his loving us — in both \ncases we want to take the second step before the first one. We think that we must \nlove God first so that he will love us first; and yet\, in his first letter Saint John \nstates expressly\, Here is love\, not that we loved God\, but that he loved us. Yes\, \nwe must love God because he first loved us. We cannot come to God unless he \nfirst comes to us. \nThis coming of God is not merely an interior\, spiritual affair; it happens \nrather in palpable\, concrete forms. So the coming of God has the same meaning \nas the revelation of God. Those\, therefore\, who carefully read and contemplate \nthe words of holy scripture\, which are a sign of his continued and continuous \ncoming\, will not find it difficult to understand that the actual content of \nscripture is the proclamation of the coming of God. His coming is the key to the \nhistory of the Old Testament and the basic theme of its people\, but this is only a \nprelude to that coming of God in which the Word was made flesh. \nAll these are ideas with which we are very familiar\, so familiar in fact that \nwe tend to think that everything has already been fulfilled. God has come in \nJesus Christ; through him he is with us in his grace by faith and the sacraments. \nGospels: Year A; introduced and edited by John E. Rotelle\, Hyde Park\, NY: New City Press\, 1995\, pp. 16-17.7 \nEach individual Christian personally\, and the Church of Christ as a community\, \nis a sign of the fact that God has come and is with us forever. Lo\, I am with you \nalways\, even to the end of the world. These are the words of our Lord at the end \nof Saint Matthew’s gospel. \nWe Christians today are so conscious of the joy of our belief in the \npresence of the Lord\, above all in the Eucharist\, that we almost forget that Christ \nhimself continued to speak of his coming right up to the end of his earthly life\, \neven though he was already present\, He spoke of a further coming\, beyond the \nChurch and the sacraments. \nAlthough the One who is to come has already appeared\, the New \nTestament\, like the Old\, is full of the promise and expectation of a new coming \nof Christ. The gospels speak of it\, so do the apostolic letters\, and most of all the \nRevelation of Saint John. This final book of the Bible teaches us: The Spirit and \nthe Bride say\, “Come.” Let him who hears say: “Come.” He who testifies to \nthese things says: Yes\, indeed\, I am coming soon\, and the congregation of the \nfaithful cries out once more: Come\, Lord Jesus!
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