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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:O KEY OF DAVID \nFrom a sermon by St Odilo of Cluny \n◊◊◊ \nThe testimony of the ancient prophets to Christ’s eternal being and his \nboundless divine presence is indeed trustworthy and true\, and is confirmed by the \nresounding call of that inspired heavenly trumpet: Jesus Christ\, yesterday and today\, \nthe same for ever. Our Savior himself tells the Jews in the gospel: Before Abraham \never existed\, I am. With God the Father from all eternity\, before Abraham existed \n(more accurately\, before anything existed\,) he had his eternal being; and yet he chose \nto be born in time from the stock of Abraham — Abraham who was told by God the \nFather: In your posterity all the peoples of the earth will be blessed. \nThe blessed patriarch David was also granted the sublime privilege of a \nsimilar promise. Revealing to him the hidden secrets of his wisdom\, God the Father \ntold him: The fruits of your body I will set upon your throne. \nThese two received the promise of the Savior’s coming more plainly than any \nof our other forebears\, and so they deserved to be given the first and most important \nplace in the records of our Lord’s ancestry according to the evangelist\, Matthew\, the \nopening words of whose gospel are: The genealogy of Jesus Christ\, the son of \nDavid\, the son of Abraham. With these sacred words of the evangelist both the \nprophetic oracles and the apostolic preaching are in accord. It is evident that when \nthe prophet Isaiah said in the person of God the Father: And so\, Israel my servant\, \nJacob whom I have chosen\, the seed of Abraham my friend in whom I took \npossession of you\, his message was that the mediator between God and humankind \nwould be born according to the flesh from the stock of Abraham.13 \nThe man in the Gospel who was freed from the darkness of ignorance and \nenlightened by faith addressed God’s Son as Son of David. Not only did he receive \nspiritual insight\, but he also deserved to have his bodily sight restored. Christ the \nLord desires to be called by this name\, knowing that there is no other name by which \nthe world can be saved. And if we ourselves wish to be saved by him who is the one \nand only Savior\, each of us must also say to him: Lord\, son of David\, have mercy on \nme.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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