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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Matthias
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN \n◊◊◊ \n<The feast of St Matthias> is the only day which is to be celebrated with \nmingled feelings of joy and pain. It records the fall as well as the election of an \nApostle. St Matthias was chosen in place of the traitor Judas. In the history of \nthe latter we have the warning recorded in very deed\, which our Lord in the text \ngives us in word\, “Hold that fast which thou hast\, that no man take thy crown.” \nAnd doubtless many were the warnings such as this\, addressed by our Lord to \nthe wretched man who in the end betrayed him. \nThe reflection which rises in the mind on a consideration of the election of \nSt Matthias\, is this: how easily God may affect His purposes without us\, and put \nothers in our place\, if we are disobedient to Him. It often happens that those \nwho have long been in His favor grow secure and presuming. They think their \nsalvation certain\, and their service necessary to Him who has graciously \naccepted it. Now\, this feeling of self-importance is repressed all through the \nScriptures\, and especially by the events we commemorate today. \nWhat solemn overpowering thoughts must have crowded on St Matthias\, \nwhen he received the greetings of the eleven Apostles\, and took his seat among \nthem as their brother! His very election was a witness against himself if he did \nnot fulfill it. And such surely will ours be in our degree. We take the place of \nothers who have gone before\, as Matthias did; we are “baptized for the dead\,” \nfilling up the ranks of soldiers\, some of whom\, indeed\, have fought a good fight\, \nbut many of whom in every age have made void their calling. Many are called\, \nfew are chosen. The monuments of sin and unbelief are set up around us. The \ncasting away of the Jews was the reconciling of the Gentiles. The fall of one \nnation is the conversion of another. The Church loses old branches and gains \nnew. God works according to His own inscrutable pleasure… \nThus the Christian of every age is but the successor of the lost and of the \ndead. How long we of this country shall be put in trust with Gospel\, we know \nnot; but while we have the privilege\, assuredly we do but stand in the place of \nChristians who have either utterly fallen away\, or are so corrupted as scarcely to \nlet their light shine before others. We are at present witnesses of the Truth; and \nour very glory is our warning. By the superstitions\, the profanities\, the \nindifference\, the unbelief of the world called “Christian”\, we are called upon to \nbe lowly-minded while we preach aloud\, and to tremble while we rejoice. Let us \nthen\, as a Church and as individuals\, one and all\, look to Him who alone can \nkeep us from falling. Let us with single heart look up to Christ our Saviour\, and \nput ourselves into His hands\, from whom all our strength and wisdom is \nderived.
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