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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE WHOLE BODY \nAS ONE BEING \nFrom a sermon by St John Henry Newman \n◊◊◊ \nThat all Christians are one\, in our Lord’s eyes is plain\, from various parts \nof the New Testament. In his mediatorial prayer for them to the Almighty \nFather\, before His Passion\, He expressed His purpose that they should be one. \nSt Paul\, in like manner\, writing to the Corinthians\, says\, “As the body is one\, and \nhas many members\, and all the members of that one body\, being many\, are one \nbody\, so also is Christ… Now you are the Body of Christ\, and members in \nparticular.” To the Ephesians\, he says\, “There is one Body\, and one Spirit\, even \nas you are called in one hope of your calling: one Lord\, one faith\, one baptism\, \none God and Father of all.” \nAnd\, further\, it is to this one Body\, regarded as one\, that the special \nprivileges of the Gospel are given. It is not that this person receives the blessing\, \nand that one\, but one and all\, the whole body\, as one being\, one new spiritual \nreality\, with one accord\, seeks and gains it. The Holy Church throughout the \nworld\, “the Bride\, the Lamb’s wife\,” is one\, not many\, and the elect souls are all \nelected in her\, not in isolation. For instance: “He is our peace who has made \nboth (Jews and Gentiles) one\, to make in himself one new humanity.” \nIn the same epistle\, it is said\, that all nations are “fellow-heirs\, and of the \nsame body and fellow-partakers of Hid promise in Christ;” and that we must \n“one and all come\,” or converge\, “in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge \nof the Son of God\, unto a perfect creation\, unto the measure of the stature of the \nfullness of Christ;” that as “the husband is the head of the wife\,” so “Christ is the \nHead of the Church\,” having “loved her and given Himself for her\, that He \nmight sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word.” \nThese are a few out of many passages which connect Gospel privileges \nwith the circumstance or condition of unity in those who receive them; the \nimage of Christ and token of their acceptance being stamped upon them then\, at \nthat moment\, when they are considered as one; so that henceforth the whole \nmultitude\, no longer viewed as mere individuals\, become portions or members \nof the indivisible Body of Christ Mystical\, so knit together in Him by Divine \nGrace\, that all have what He has\, and each has what all have. \nThe same great truth is taught us in such texts as speak of all Christians \nforming one spiritual building\, of which the Jewish Temple was the type. They \nare temples one by one\, simply as being portions of that one Temple which is the \nChurch. “You are built up\,” says St Peter\, “a spiritual house\, a holy priesthood\, \nto offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” Hence the word \n“edification”\, which properly means this building up of all Christians in one\, has \ncome to stand for individual improvement; for it is by being incorporated into \nthe one Body\, that we have the promise of life; by becoming members of Christ\, \nwe have the gift of His Spirit.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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