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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St John of the Cross
DESCRIPTION:LOVE OF THE CROSS \nFrom an essay by St Edith Stein \n◊◊◊ \nWe hear repeatedly that St. John of the Cross desired nothing for himself \nbut to suffer and be despised. We want to know the reason for this love of \nsuffering. Is it merely the loving remembrance of the path of suffering of our \nLord on earth\, a tender impulse to be humanly close to him by a life resembling \nhis? This does not seem to correspond to the lofty and strict spirituality of the \nmystical teacher. And in relation to the Man of Sorrows\, it would almost seem \nthat the victoriously enthroned king\, the divine conqueror of sin\, death and hell \nis forgotten. Did not Christ lead captivity captive? Has he not transported us \ninto a kingdom of light and called us to be happy children of our heavenly \nFather? \nThe sight of the world in which we live\, the need and misery\, and the abyss \nof human malice\, again and again dampens jubilation over the victory of light. \nThe world is still deluged by mire\, and still only a small flock has escaped from it \nto the highest mountain peaks. The battle between Christ and the Antichrist is \nnot yet over. The followers of Christ have their place in this battle\, and their \nchief weapon is the cross… \nThe entire sum of human failures from the first Fall up to the Day of \nJudgment must be blotted out by a corresponding measure of expiation. The \nway of the cross is this expiation. The triple collapse under the burden of the \ncross corresponds to the triple fall of humanity: the first sin\, the rejection of the \nSavior by his chosen people\, the falling away of those who bear the name of \nChristian… \nThe Savior is not alone on the way of the cross… The archetype of \nfollowers of the cross for all time is the Mother of God. …Everyone who\, in the \ncourse of time\, has borne an onerous destiny in remembrance of the suffering \nSavior or who has freely taken up works of expiation has by doing so canceled \nsome of the mighty load of human sin and has helped the Lord carry his \nburden.… The disciples\, both men and women\, who surrounded [the Savior] \nduring his earthly life\, assist him on the second stretch. The lovers of the cross \nwhom he has awakened and will always continue to awaken anew in the \nchangeable history of the struggling church\, these are his allies at the end of \ntime. We\, too\, are called for that purpose… \nBut because being one with Christ is our sanctity\, and progressively \nbecoming one with him our happiness on earth\, the love of the cross in no way \ncontradicts being a joyful child of God. Helping Christ carry his cross fills one \nwith a strong and pure joy\, and those who may and can do so\, the builders of \nGod’s kingdom\, are the most authentic children of God. And so those who have \na predilection for the way of the cross by no means deny that Good Friday is past \nand that the work of salvation has been accomplished. Only those who are \nsaved\, only children of grace\, can in fact be bearers of Christ’s cross. Only in \nunion with the divine Head does human suffering take on expiatory power. To \nsuffer and to be happy although suffering\, to have one’s feet on the earth\, to walk \non the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at \nthe Father’s right hand\, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and \nceaselessly sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels — this is the life of \nthe Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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