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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:O RADIANT DAWN \nBy St Irenaeus \n◊◊◊ \nThere is one God who\, through the Word and Wisdom\, made everything \nand brought everything into harmony. It is he who is the Creator and who gave \nthis world over to the human race. Because of his greatness he is unknown to all \nthe beings whom he has made; for no one\, either in ancient times or today\, has \nlooked upon the great eminence in which he dwells. Yet because of his love he is \nknown at all times\, thanks to him through whom he created all things. He is \nnone other than the Word\, our Lord Jesus Christ\, who in these latter times \nbecame a human being among humans in order to join the end to the beginning \nagain\, humanity to God. That is why the prophets\, when they had received the \ngift of prophecy\, foretold in their preaching that he would come according to the \nflesh and that the uniting and communion of God and humanity would be \nrealized according to the Father’s good pleasure. \nFrom the very beginning the Word proclaimed that God would be seen by \nhumans\, that he would live and talk with them on earth and that he would take \npart in the work which he himself had planned. He proclaimed that he would do \nthis to save his work\, and proclaimed that he would let himself be seized by it\, \n“to save us from the hands of all who hate us”\, from all spirit of transgression. \nHe also proclaimed that he would act in such a way that “we shall serve him \nwithout fear in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life”\, so that\, \ncaught up by the Spirit of God\, humanity might attain to the glory of the \nFather… The prophets\, then\, foretold that God would be seen among \nhumankind\, according again to what the Lord said: “Blessed are the pure in \nheart\, for they shall see God”. \nIt is true that because of his greatness and inexpressible glory\, “no one \nshall see God and live”\, for the Father is unattainable. But because of his love \nand goodness towards humanity and of his power to do all things\, he goes so far \nas to grant to those who love him the privilege of seeing God — just as the \nprophets foretold — “for what is impossible with humans is possible with God”. \nBy their own power humans will never be able to see God; but God\, if he \nwills it\, will be seen by humans\, by those whom he intends to see him\, when – \nand how – he intends it. For God can do all things: seen of old through the \nintervention of the Spirit in the manner of the prophets; then seen again \nthrough the mediation of the Son in accordance with the adoption\, he will be \nseen again in the Kingdom in accordance with the Fatherhood\, the Holy \nSpirit preparing humanity in advance for the Son of God\, the Son leading \nthem to the Father\, and the Father bestowing on them that incorruptibility \nand eternal life which comes to everyone from the fact of their seeing God. \nJust as those who see the light are themselves in the light and share in its \nsplendor\, so those who see God are in God and share in his splendor.
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