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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “On the Sacraments” by \nST AMBROSE \n◊◊◊ \nYou were asked: ‘Do you believe in God the Father almighty?’ You replied: \n‘I believe’\, and you were immersed: that is\, buried. You were asked for a second \ntime: ‘Do you believe in our Lord Jesus Christ and in his Cross?’ You replied: ‘I \nbelieve’\, and you were immersed: which means that you were buried with \nChrist. For one who is buried with Christ rises again with Christ. You were asked \na third time: ‘Do you believe also in the Holy Spirit?’ You replied: ‘I believe’\, and \nyou were immersed a third time\, so that the threefold confession might absolve \nthe manifold lapses of the past. \nWe can give you an illustration of this. The holy Apostle Peter appeared to \nlapse through human weakness during the Lord’s Passion. To wipe out and \nabsolve the fault of his denial\, he was asked by Christ three times if he loved \nhim. Peter replied: Lord\, you know that I love you. He answered three times so \nas to be absolved three times. \nThus the Father forgives sin\, so does the Son\, and so does the Holy Spirit. \nDo not be surprised that we are baptized in one name: in the name\, that is\, of the \nFather and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit; because Christ spoke of only one \nname where there is one substance\, one divinity\, one majesty. This is the name \nof which it is written: In this must all find salvation. It is in this name that you \nhave all been saved\, that you have been restored to the grace of life. \nSo the Apostle exclaims\, as you have just heard in the reading\, Whoever is \nbaptized\, is baptized in the death of Jesus. What does in the death mean? It \nmeans that just as Christ died\, so you will taste death; that just as Christ died to \nsin and lives to God\, so through the Sacrament of Baptism you are dead to the \nold enticements of sin and have risen again through the grace of Christ. This is a \ndeath\, then\, not in the reality of bodily death\, but in likeness. When you are \nimmersed\, you receive the likeness of death and burial\, you receive the \nSacrament of his Cross; because Christ hung upon the Cross and his body was \nfastened to it by the nails. So you are crucified with him. \nThe font has the shape and appearance of a sort of tomb. When we believe \nin the Father\, the Son and the Holy Spirit\, we are received and immersed in it; \nthat is\, we are restored to life. You also receive the myrrh\, that is\, the chrism\, \nover your heads. Why over your heads? Because the faculties of the wise man \nare situated in his head\, says Solomon. Wisdom without grace is inert; but \nwhen wisdom receives grace\, then its work begins to move toward fulfillment. \nThis is called regeneration. \nWhat is regeneration? You can read in the Acts of the Apostles that a verse \nfrom the second Psalm\, You are my son\, today I have begotten you\, seems to \nrefer to the Resurrection. That is why he is also called The firstborn from the \ndead. For what is resurrection except that we rise from death to life? So it is in \nBaptism\, which is an image of death: when you are immersed and rise up again\, \nthere\, certainly\, is an image of the Resurrection. So as Christ’s Resurrection is \ninterpreted by the Apostle as a regeneration\, so also this resurrection from the \nfont is a regeneration.
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