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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Thanksgiving
DESCRIPTION:THE FULLNESS \nOF THANKSGIVING \nBy Xavier Léon-Dufour \n◊◊◊ \nThe first reality of biblical history is the gift of God\, gratuitous\, \nsuperabundant\, without return. The encounter with God does not put human \nbeings simply in the presence of the absolute; it completes them and transforms \ntheir lives. Thanksgiving appears as the response to this progressive and \ncontinual grace which one day should blossom in Christ. At the same time there \nis an intense awareness of the gifts of God\, a spirit of soul permeated with \nwonder because of God’s generosity\, a joyous recognition before the divine \ngreatness; thus thanksgiving is essential in the Bible because it is a fundamental \nreligious reaction of creatures when they discover\, in a tremor of joy and \nveneration\, something of God’s greatness and glory… \nAt the time of the New Covenant thanksgiving truly breaks forth\, \nbecoming present everywhere in the prayer and the life of the Christians as it \nhad never existed before among the just of the past. Biblical thanksgiving is \ntruly and essentially Christian. It is not exclusively Christian\, however\, to the \nextent that\, as was written in the Old Testament\, “Israelites praise without \ngiving thanks.” If the Old Testament does not yet know the fullness of \nthanksgiving\, it is because it has not yet tasted the fullness of grace. \nIf praise\, more spontaneous\, more exteriorized\, holds therein perhaps a \ngreater place than thanksgiving properly so called\, more reflective\, more \nattentive to God’s actions and self revelation\, it is because the most holy God is \nrevealed only progressively\, unveiling little by little the amplitude of the action \nand the depth of the gifts of God. \nBecause it is the revelation and the gift of perfect grace\, in the person of \nthe Lord\, it is also the revelation of the perfect thanksgiving rendered to the \nFather in the Holy Spirit. The supreme act of the Lord is thanksgiving; the \nsacrifice which Jesus made of His life in consecrating it to the Father in order \nthat He may sanctify His own is our Eucharist. At the last supper and on the \ncross\, Jesus reveals the drive of all His life and that of His death: thanksgiving \nfrom the heart of the Son. \nThe passion and death of Jesus were necessary that He might fully glorify \nthe Father\, but all His life was an incessant thanksgiving\, which sometimes was \nmade explicit and solemn\, to draw all to believe and return thanks to God with \nJesus. The essential object of this thanksgiving is the work of God\, the \nMessianic realization\, notably manifested by miracles\, the gift of His word \nwhich God has made to everyone. \nThe gift of the Eucharist to the church expresses an essential truth: only \nJesus Christ is our thanksgiving\, just as He alone is our praise. It is He first of all \nwho gives thanks to the Father\, and Christians afterwards in Him. In Christian \nthanksgiving\, Christ is the sole model and sole mediator. In the heavenly \nJerusalem\, with the Messianic work fulfilled\, thanksgiving becomes pure praise \nof glory\, dazzling contemplation of God and the eternal marvels.
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