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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE LIVING \nAPOSTOLIC CHURCH \nBy Cardinal Jean Danielou \n◊◊◊ \nIt is the manhood of Jesus that is the Temple of the new Law\, but this \nmanhood must be taken as a whole\, that is to say\, it is the Mystical Body in its \nentirety; this is the complete and final Temple. The dwelling of God is the \nChristian community whose Head is in heaven\, and whose members are still \nmaking their earthly pilgrimage; it is the true Temple of which the Temple of \nstone was the figure. “Be you also as living stones built up\, a spiritual house\, a \nholy priesthood\, to offer up spiritual sacrifices\, acceptable to God by Jesus \nChrist“… \nThere is a basic difference between the Temple at Jerusalem and the \nChristian Church. Under the old law\, the presence of God is connected with the \nbuilding of stone; under the new law\, it is connected with the spiritual \ncommunity. The church of stone is not in the succession of the Temple\, but of the \nsynagogue; it is the assembly\, the ecclesia\, the meeting-place. Or rather\, at the \nsame time it continues both of them\, since it is the normal place for the sacrifice. \nBut it can be dispensed with; it is not necessary that it should be there for the \ncelebration of the Mass\, while the community is necessary. \nThus is fulfilled the saying of Jesus: “Where there are two or three \ngathered together in my name\, there am I in the midst of them“. It is the \nessential condition required for the offering of an acceptable host that is \npresented in the Sermon on the Mount\, where it is written: “If you offer your gift \nat the altar\, and there you remember that your brother has any thing against \nyou\, go first to be reconciled to your brother: and then coming you shall offer \nyour gift“. No offering is accepted save that which is made in charity\, in \ncommunity. For there the temple is\, the one and only place where man is in the \npresence of God. \nThis is an extraordinary fact\, as extraordinary in its own order as the \npresence of God in the Temple at Jerusalem. God enters into relationship not \nwith isolated souls\, but with the community. Through the baptismal rites\, the \nentry of the catechumen into the church of stone is a figure of entry into the living \nChurch\, into the community which is the place of meeting with God. Of this \nmeeting the Eucharist is the permanent sign\, being at once the sacrament of the \nmystical body and the sign of the real presence\, and bringing about at the same \ntime union with God and the strengthening of the bonds of charity. Sin has the \neffect simultaneously of alienating the sinner from the presence of God\, and of \nseparating the sinner from the community. The primitive discipline of the \nChurch made this clear when it excluded the sinner publicly from the community. \nThe sinner still remains excluded from communion; and reconciliation with God \nis necessarily required by the community as intermediary. This is the meaning of \nconfession\, in which the priest represents the people\, which itself represents God. \nThis is why the Church has the deposit of the living Word of God. It is in her \nthat the Word mysteriously dwells\, thus continuing the Incarnation of the Logos. \nWe come to faith in Christ not by the study of dead literary documents\, but in a \npreliminary way through the living witness of an organism sustained and \nanimated by Christ\, through the teaching of the living Apostolic Church; in a full \nand effective way by immediate contact with the living Christ in the Church\, \nthrough the operation of grace acting in all its fullness in the sacrament.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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