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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE FAITH \nOF THE GENTILES \nFrom a sermon by John of Ford \n◊◊◊ \nThe way the dawn rises seems a very apt symbol of the speed\, eagerness \nand greatness of the faith of the Gentiles in Jesus Christ. It awoke from a sleep \nwhose heaviness had been so long and so profound\, and at the very first light of \nthe Lord’s birth\, it sped towards him\, like ‘the rising dawn’\, It broke free from \nthe darkness of such a great want of faith to forestall\, with eager devotion\, the \nSun of justice. I say “forestall’ because it did not wait for the Wisdom of God to \ncome and discuss with it the sublimities he had seen and heard when he spoke at \nhome with this Father… [Nor did it] await his dazzling display of miracles and \nvirtues and his giving commands to sickness and health\, to wind and sea\, to \nevery angelic and human spirit\, even to the demons themselves. \nOn the contrary\, [this gentile faith] would not allow even the time of his \ninfancy to escape it\, but in the lowly beginnings of that infancy\, it sought out and \nrecognized its creator. And so the faith of the gentile nations was swift in its \nspeed\, eager in its rejoicing\, wise in its search\, resolute in its finding\, faithful in \nits adoration\, generous in its gift of itself… \nThink of the faith of the centurion\, at which scripture tells us that Jesus \nmarveled. In fact\, he went so far as to say that he had not found faith as great in \nIsrael. That he was here commending the faith of the gentiles is clear enough \nfrom what he said to those who were following him. ‘I tell you most solemnly\, \nthat many will come from the east and from the west\, and sit down with \nAbraham and Isaac and Jacob; but the children of the kingdom will be cast out \ninto the exterior darkness .̓ \nThen we have the Canaanite woman who interceded for her daughter\, and \nwhen she was refused\, persisted\, and by the great noise she made\, battered at \nthe silence of Jesus. When he turned away from her\, she followed him without \napology; she humbly adored him when he rejected her; she listened patiently to \nhis reproaches\, and so\, in the end\, she brought forth ‘honey from the rock\, and \noil from the flinty stone I repeat\, in the person of this woman\, the church of the .̓ \ngentiles deserved to hear the Lord Jesus say: ‘O woman\, great is your faith!’ \nThen there was the woman of Samaria\, who found the God of Jacob \nbeside Jacob’s well\, and in place of the water that does not quench our thirst\, \ndrew for herself ‘the fount of living water’\, so as never to know thirst again. She \ntoo is a figure of the faith of the gentiles\, and she was commended by the very \nauthor of faith when he said to the disciples who were asking him to eat\, ‘I have \nfood to eat that you know nothing about He added\, ‘Lift up your eyes and see .̓ \nthe fields\, that they are white for the harvest Here he was making unmistakable .̓ \nreference to the ripeness and zealous eagerness of the gentile faith\, which he \nconsidered food that he hungered after and would eat in the near future… \nAnd there was the centurion\, too\, when Jesus was suffering and the faith \nof the disciples was exceedingly disturbed. He reached the full stature of a \nstrong faith\, and the crucified Jesus\, whom others saw and fell away\, \nscandalized\, drew him forward in praise.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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