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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:PATIENCE WITH THE PROVISIONAL \nBy Fr Karl Rahner \n◊◊◊ \nPeople of Advent\, of waiting for God\, of burning longing for the eternal\, can \nbe overcome by the most terrible and dangerous impatience that there is\, a \nreligious radicalism which has the appearance of being glorious and sublime but \nin reality is the contrary of the truly advent attitude. \nWe thirst for God\, hope in him\, hope that he will soon establish his \nkingdom. He wills the unconditional\, the radiant truth whose splendour at once \nburns every doubt from the mind\, the radical goodness which would destroy all \nfear that goodness itself is only a form of self-seeking. But only precursors ever \ncome; only beginnings are made; messengers come but always with God’s truth \nstill in merely human words which obscure it. Those messengers of God are \nhuman beings with human traits and sometimes inhuman ones. All that ever \nhappens are God’s saving deeds (called sacraments) in human ceremonies. All \nthese provisional things simply continue to proclaim that they themselves are not \nthe reality. The reality is merely hidden there in al those non-real words\, human \nbeings\, signs. \nThen human beings who even in their purest religious feeling are sinners\, \nmay lose patience. What are you doing in religion\, you human beings\, words\, \nsigns\, if you are after all not the reality\, not the unveiled God immediately \npresent? Then the impatient think that this God may perhaps be found outside \nthe human beings\, the words and the signs of the Church: in nature\, in the infinity \nof their own heart\, in political projects to establish for ever by force here and now\, \nthe Kingdom of God. Or somewhere else. But in the end these impatient people \nrealize\, very often too late\, that they have wandered into the wilderness of their \nown empty hearts where the devils dwell\, not God; into the loveless desert of a \nblind and cruel nature which is only benevolent on Sunday afternoons; into the \narid wasteland of the world where the waters of ideals ooze away the farther one \nadvances; into the desolate wilderness of a politics which brings about not the \nKingdom of God but simply the tyranny of naked forces. \nNo\, we are not spared it. We must have the patience of men and women of \nadvent. The Church is only the voice of one crying in the wilderness\, announcing \nthat the final radiant Kingdom of God is still coming and that when God wills\, \nnot when it suits us. We cannot try to ignore the voice of precursors simply \nbecause it comes from the mouths of human beings; we cannot disregard the \nmessenger of the Church because he too is not worthy to loosen the shoelaces of \nthe Lord whose forerunner he is\, or because he cannot call down fire from \nheaven like Elijah. For it is still advent. The Church itself is still an advent \nChurch; for we are still waiting for him who is to come in the unveiled radiance \nof unconditional Godhead with the eternal Kingdom. The Church rightly tells to \nprepare of this God the true way\, the way of faith\, of love\, of humility\, and the \nway of patience with its unimpressive provisional messengers of their poor \nwords and small signs. For then God will certainly come. He only comes to \nthose who in patience love his forerunners and the provisional.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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