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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:A COMMUNITY IN \nNATURE AND IN GRACE \nBy Fr Karl Rahner \n◊◊◊ \nMariology is not merely a piece of the private life-story of Jesus of \nNazareth\, of no real ultimate significance for our salvation\, but an affirmation of \nfaith itself concerning a reality of the faith\, without which there is no salvation. \nWe human beings are important for one another. We mean something to \none another\, not only in the everyday things of life\, not only because (since we \nexist) we have parents\, not only because\, in the biological sphere\, in the external \nlife of the civil community\, of art and learning\, we are always dependent on a \ngreat human community. That is not the only reason for our importance for one \nanother. Even in our salvation we are also similarly dependent on other human \nbeings. That goes without saying\, as a matter of course\, yet it is difficult to \ngrasp. One might think we were only important to one another for this life\, for \nexternal things\, or at most in the domain of the spirit here on earth. \nOr one might think that when it is a question of how God stands to me and \nI to God\, of the ultimate decision about my eternity\, of how I shall fare one day\, \nwhen through the inexorable loneliness of my death\, I stand utterly alone before \nthe face of God\, that then\, in all that\, I am absolutely alone and isolated. Then\, \nsurely\, there is only the one God\, and myself\, his love and mercy\, and my \nirreplaceable freedom in guilt and grace. Yet it is not so\, for all that. All that has \nbeen said is true\, but it is not the whole truth. For we still belong to one another\, \neven then. \n6 The Practice of Faith\, Cp.32\, Devotion to Mary. Crossroads 1983. p.161-215 \nEach has their own\, inalienable\, unique freedom\, from which they cannot \nescape\, which they cannot shuffle off on to someone else. But for all that\, it is \nnot a lonely isolated freedom\, not even when it is deciding the eternal destiny of \na human being\, or making the fundamental choice of a human life. For the \neternal Son\, the eternal Word of the Father\, was made flesh\, born of the Virgin \nMary. In our family\, out of our race that stretches from the first human being\, \nAdam\, to the last\, the Word of the Father was made flesh. \nThere is\, therefore\, a community in nature and in grace which takes effect \nin a community of sin and guilt\, of the mercy of God and his grace\, a community \nof origin and goal. But guilt and grace\, origin and end\, are God’s concerns. \nConsequently the community of humanity extends into the domain of our \neternal salvation with God. It is a community in eternal welfare or loss\, a vast \ncommunity which acts out as a whole\, and not only in individual human beings\, \nthe great drama of history before the eyes of God\, and which brings to light what \nGod’s thought about humanity was.
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