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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Andrew Dung-Lac & Companions
DESCRIPTION:IN THE STEPS \nOF THE MARTYRS \nFrom a homily by St Augustine \n◊◊◊ \nLet us not imagine that in keeping the feast of the Martyrs with great \nsolemnity\, we are benefiting them. They who are in the joy of heaven with the \nangels have no need of our honors and if they rejoice with us\, it is at being \nimitated\, not at being honored. However\, though this veneration does not \nbenefit them\, it is useful for us: but to honor them without imitating them\, \nwould be lying flattery. If then these solemnities have been instituted in the \nChurch of Christ\, it is only to unite all the members of Christ and to enlist them \nas followers in the steps of the martyrs of Christ. Such is the fruit of today’s \nfestival; there is no question of any other. \nWhen\, in fact\, we propose God himself as our example\, human weakness \nreadily answers that it is above its power to imitate him to whom it cannot be \ncompared. In that case Jesus Christ our Lord will be proposed to it as model \nwho\, being God\, clothed himself in mortal flesh in order the better to persuade \nus also clothed in this same flesh\, adding word to example; Christ\, it is written\, \n“suffered for our sake\, and left you his own example; you were to follow in his \nfootsteps”. \nYet will not frail humanity reply again: “What comparison is there \nbetween me and Christ? He was one of us\, but he was God. He took flesh\, but \nwithout ceasing to be the Word\, assuming a new nature without losing that \nwhich was proper to him. For\, as St Paul says\, “God was in Christ\, reconciling \nthe world to himself”. Once again\, how can I compare myself with Christ? \n2 Sermon 325. Trans.\, Lectionary and Martyrology\, ed. Encalcat Abbey\, 1956\, 509-510.5 \nTherefore\, to remove all pretext from the faithlessness of the weak\, the \nMartyrs have made a broad way for us. It was necessary that the foundation \nshould be solid as stone\, in order that our footsteps should be steady: they have \ncemented it with their blood and their testimony\, and finally\, reckoning nothing \nof their bodies\, they have thrown them under the feet of Christ as he advances to \nthe conquest of the heathen\, as\, On Palm Sunday\, the people threw their \ngarments under the feet of the ass on which he rode. Who would be ashamed to \nsay: “I am inferior to God”? I grant you are very much so. “I am inferior to \nChrist”? Yes\, certainly\, and even to his humanity. \nBut Peter was what you are; so was Paul\, and the Apostles and Prophets \nwere all what you are yourself. If the example of our Lord alarms you\, at least \nimitate those who are like you his servant. They go before you in dense crowds: \nno more excuse for your lukewarmness. Will you say to me again: “I am very far \nfrom Peter and Paul”? Are you then also far from truth? There where the \nilliterate receive the crown\, there is no excuse for vanity. Are you less than \nchildren? \nWatch then…that in celebrating the sufferings of the Martyrs you fill \nyourself with the desire to imitate them. They knew that they must choose a \ngood cause if their work was to be made fruitful. They remembered that not \nonly had our Lord said: “Blessed are the persecuted”\, but: “blessed are those \nwho suffer persecution in the cause of right”. Choose yourselves the good cause\, \nand do not be disturbed by what you suffer in so doing.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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