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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:O WISDOM \nA letter from an anonymous author to Diognetus \n◊◊◊ \nNo one has ever seen God or known him\, but God has revealed himself to \nus through faith\, by which alone it is possible to see him. God\, the Lord and \nmaker of all things\, who created the world and set it in order\, not only loved us \nbut was also patient with us. So he has always been\, and is\, and will be: kind\, \ngood\, free from anger\, truthful; indeed\, he and he alone is good. \nHe devised a plan\, a great and wonderful plan\, and shared it only with his \nSon. As long as he preserved his secrecy and kept his own wise counsel he \nseemed to be neglecting us\, to have no concern for us. But when – through his \nbeloved Son – he revealed and made public what he had prepared from the \nbeginning\, he gave us all at once gifts such as we could never have dreamt of\, \neven sight and knowledge of himself. \nAfter making all his plans in consultation with his Son\, God still allowed \nus for a time to go our own way\, to be swept along by unruly passion\, enslaved by \nsensuality. This does not mean that he took pleasure in our sins\, but only that he \ntolerated them. When we had shown ourselves to be unworthy of life\, his \ngoodness would make us worthy of it. When we had shown our inability to enter \nthe kingdom of God by our own power\, we would be enabled to do so by God’s \npower. \nHow immeasurable is God’s generosity and love! He did not show hatred \nfor us or reject us or take vengeance. He gave his own Son as the price of our \nredemption\, the holy One to redeem the wicked\, the sinless One to redeem \nsinners\, the just One to redeem the unjust\, the incorruptible One to redeem the \ncorruptible\, the immortal One to redeem mortals. For what else could have7 \ncovered our sins but his sinlessness? In whom could we have been sanctified but \nin the Son of God alone? \nHow wonderful a transformation\, how mysterious a design\, how \ninconceivable a blessing! The wickedness of the many is hidden in the One who \nis holy\, and the holiness of One sanctifies the many.
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