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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:THE CALL OF THE APOSTLES \nBy Fr Romano Guardini \n◊◊◊ \nWhat are “Apostles” really? Frankly; the impression we get from the New \nTestament hardly permits us to claim that these men were great or ingenious in \nthe worldly sense. It is difficult even to count them “great religious \npersonalities\,” if by this we mean bearers of inherent spiritual talents. John and \nPaul were probably exceptions\, but we only risk misunderstanding them both \nby overstating this. On the whole\, we do “Apostles” no service by considering \nthem great religious personalities. This attitude is usually the beginning of \nunbelief. Personal importance\, spiritual creativeness\, dynamic faith are not \ndecisive in their lives. What counts is that Jesus Christ has called them\, pressed \nhis seal upon them\, and sent them forth. \n“You have not chosen me\, but I have chosen you\, and have appointed you \nthat you should go and bear fruit”. Apostles then are those who are sent. It is \nnot they who speak\, but Christ in them. \nIn his first Corinthian [letter] Paul distinguishes nicely between the \ninstructions of “the Lord” and what he\, Paul\, has to say. The Lord’s words are \ncommands; his own\, suggestions. Each apostle is filled with Christ\, saturated \nwith thought of Christ; the Lord\, whom they represent\, is the substance of their \nlife. What they teach is not what they have learned from personal “experience” \nor “revelation\,” it is God’s word\, uttered upon God’s command: “Go\, therefore\, \nand make disciples of all nations teaching them to observe all that I have \ncommanded you”. To this end alone have the apostles been called\, and their \nvery limitations seem an added protection to the truth they bear. \nWhen Jesus says: “I praise you\, Father\, Lord of heaven and earth\, that \nyou have hidden these things from the wise and prudent\, and have revealed \nthem to little ones”\, it is an outburst of jubilation over the unutterable mystery \nof God’s love and creative glory. Spiritually\, the apostles are seldom more than \n“little ones;” [and it is] precisely this [that] guarantees the purity of their role as \nmessenger. \nTo be nothing in oneself\, everything in Christ; to be obliged to contain \nsuch tremendous contents in so small a vessel; to be a constant herald with no \nlife of one’s own; to forego once and forever the happy unity of blood and heart \nand spirit in all one does and is—something of the trials of such an existence \ndawns on us when we read the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians\, of that \nPaul who experienced so deeply the simultaneous greatness and \nquestionableness of apostledom: “For I think God has set forth us the apostles \nlast of all\, as men doomed to death\, seeing that we have been made a spectacle \nto the world\, and to angels\, and to men.”
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