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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:SHARERS OF THE PRIESTLY OFFICE \nFrom a sermon by St Leo the Great \n◊◊◊ \nI rejoice\, dearly beloved\, in the pious affection of your devotion\, and I give \nthanks to God that I see in you the love of Christian unity. For your very \npresence here testifies that you understand that the annual return of this day is \na matter for common rejoicing; and that in celebrating the annual festival of the \nShepherd\, you are honouring the whole flock. \nFor though the universal Church is ordered in varying degrees\, so the \nwhole is made up from the diverse members of the sanctified Body\, we are all\, n \nevertheless\, as the Apostle says\, one in Christ; and no one is separated by office \nfrom another\, so that even the least among us is related to the head. Therefore\, \nBeloved\, in its unity of faith and baptism\, our society is undivided\, and its \ndignity is the dignity of all its members; according to the words of the blessed \nPeter\, spoken by his own consecrated voice: Be you as living stones built up\, a \nspiritual house\, a holy priesthood\, to offer up spiritual sacrifices\, acceptable to \nGod by Jesus Christ. And a little later: You are a chosen generation\, a kingly \npriesthood\, a holy nation\, a purchased people. \nFor all who are born again in Christ\, the sign of the Cross makes kings\, \nand the anointing of the Holy Spirit consecrates priests; so that apart from the \nspecial service of our ministry\, let all spiritual and reasoning Christians know \nthat they are of royal birth\, and sharers of the priestly office. For what is so \nkingly as the soul that is subject to God\, and the ruler of its own body? And what \nis so priestly as to dedicate to the Lord a pure conscience\, and to offer him on the \naltar of our hearts the unstained gift of our love? \nAnd since by God’s grace this has been given to us all\, it is for you a devout \nand praiseworthy thing to rejoice on the day of our coronation as though the \nhonour were your own.
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