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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:PERFECTION IN WEAKNESS \nBy Fr Hugh Rahner \n◊◊◊ \nThe Catholic Church is a house full of glory extending far and wide into \nevery land of this our terrestrial world. We sing her praises because we love her. \nFor she is the hidden queen of human history.… \nAll this would be\, however\, only “boasting according to the flesh” and not \n“glory in the cross of Christ” – all would be counterfeit\, falsified\, and therefore \nfilled with that furtive disappointment that we so often experience after \necclesiastical ceremonies\, if we did not also speak of the incomprehensible \nmystery of Christian existence which Paul describes with the words: “If I must \nboast\, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.” The Apostle is \nspeaking here of his own wretchedness. \nHowever\, one of the principle truths of the revelation of the New \nTestament\, as sketched by Paul\, is that the strength of God reveals itself in \nhuman weakness. The salvific work of the Father\, which was contained in love \nbefore the very foundation of the universe\, reveals itself to us in the Word which \nbecame flesh\, and will be completed through the instrument of the Church in \nthe power of grace victorious up to its blessed conclusion in weakness. For as \nScripture tells us: “The power of God reaches its perfection in weakness”. Let us \nleave these words as they stand. Indeed let us keep the expression in the \nshocking bluntness of the Greek words: “The dynamis of God reaches perfec- \ntion in asthenia.” \nThe force of these words can be vaguely perceived from what technology \nhas to say today about dynamics\, and from what medicine has to say about \nasthenia. So\, let us read: the power of God reaches its goal in asthenia\, in \nstunted asthenic growth\, in frailty\, therefore in all that is in contrast to what is \nbig\, strong\, healthy\, well formed\, humane\, rational. So\, and only so\, does the \nexplosive power of the Father’s salvific love reveal itself\, passionately driving \nonward to victory in the mystical Christ. “For the foolishness of God is wiser \nthan men\, and the weakness of God is stronger than men…and the base things \nof the world and the despised has God chosen…lest any flesh should pride itself \nbefore him. So that\, just as it is written: ‘Let him who takes pride\, take pride in \nthe Lord’”.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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