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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE SEASON OF MAJESTY \nThe continuation of a sermon by St John Henry Newman \n◊◊◊ \nYou will observe\, then\, that the only display of royal greatness\, the only \nseason of majesty\, homage and glory\, which our Lord had on earth\, was in His \ninfancy and youth. Gabriel’s message to Mary was in its style and manner such as \nbefitted an Angel speaking to Christ’s Mother. Elizabeth\, too\, saluted Mary\, and the \nfuture Baptist his hidden Lord\, in the same honorable way. Angels announced His \nbirth\, and the shepherds worshiped. A star appeared\, and the wise men rose from \nthe East and made Him offerings. He was brought to the temple\, and Simeon took \nHim in his arms\, and returned thanks for Him. He grew to twelve years old\, and \nagain He appeared in the temple\, and took His seat in the midst of the doctors. But \nhere His earthly majesty had its end\, or if seen afterwards\, it was but now and then\, \nby glimpses and by sudden gleams\, but with no sustained light and no diffused \nradiance. \nWe are told at the close of the last-mentioned narrative\, “And He went down \nwith His parents\, and came to Nazareth\, and was subject to them.” His subjection \nand servitude now began in fact. He had come in the form of a servant\, and now He \ntook on a servant’s office. How much is contained in the idea of His subjection! and \nit began\, and His time of glory ended\, when He was twelve years old. \nSolomon\, the great type of the Prince of Peace\, reigned for forty years\, and \nhis name and greatness was known far and wide through the East. Joseph\, the \nmuch-loved son of Jacob\, who in an earlier age of the Church\, was a type of Christ \nin His kingdom\, was in power and favor eighty years\, twice as long as Solomon. But \nChrist\, the true Revealer of secrets\, and the Dispenser of the Bread of life\, the true \nwisdom and majesty of the Father\, manifested His glory only in His early years\, \nand then the sun of Righteousness was clouded. For He was not to reign really\, till \nHe left the world. He has reigned ever since; nay\, reigned in the world\, though He is \nnot sensible presence in it – the invisible King of a visible kingdom – for He came \non earth only to show what His reign would be\, after He had left it\, and to submit to \nsuffering and dishonor\, that He might reign. Christ descends to the shadows of this \nworld\, with the transitory tokens on Him of that future glory into which He could \nnot enter till He had suffered. The star burned brightly over Him for a while\, \nthough it then faded away.
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