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SUMMARY:Easter Weekday
DESCRIPTION:A reading from\nST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN 4\n◊◊◊\nChrist’s going to the Father is at once a source of sorrow because it involves his absence\, and of joy because it involves his presence. And out of the doctrine of his Resurrection and Ascension spring those Christian paradoxes\, often spoken of in Scripture\, that we are sorrowing yet always rejoicing; as having nothing yet possessing all things. \nThis\, indeed\, is our state at present; we have lost Christ and we have found him; we see him not\, yet we discern him. We embrace his feet\, yet he says\, Touch me not. How is this? It is thus: we have lost the sensible and conscious perception of him; we cannot look on him\, hear him\, converse with him\, follow him from place to place; but we enjoy the spiritual\, immaterial\, inward\, mental\, real sight and possession of him; a possession more real and more present than that which the Apostles had in the days of his flesh\, because it is spiritual\, because it is invisible. When he says that he should go away\, and come again and abide forever\, he is speaking not merely of his omnipresent\, divine nature\, but of his human nature. As being Christ he says that he\, the incarnate mediator\, shall be with his Church forever. \nBut again\, you may be led to explain his declaration thus: ‘He has come again\, but in his Spirit; that is\, his Spirit has come instead of him; and when it is said that he is with us\, this only means that his Spirit is with us.’ \nNo one\, doubtless\, can deny this most gracious and consolatory truth\, that the Holy Spirit has come; but why has he come? To supply Christ’s absence\nor to accomplish his presence? Surely to make him present. Let us not suppose that God the Holy Spirit comes in such sense that God the Son remains away. No; he has not so come that Christ does not come\, but rather he comes that Christ may come in his coming. Through the Holy Spirit we have communion with Father and Son. In Christ we are built together\, says St Paul\, for a dwelling place of God through the Spirit. You are the temple of God\, the Spirit of God dwells in you. \nThus the Holy Spirit does not take the place of Christ in the soul\, but secures that place for Christ. St Paul insists much on this presence of Christ in those who have his Spirit. Do you not know\, he says\, that your bodies are the members of Christ? By one Spirit we are all baptized one body… you are the body of Christ\, and each one of you is a part of it? \nThe Holy Spirit\, then\, vouchsafes to come to us\, that by his coming Christ may come to us\, not carnally or visibly\, but may enter into us. And thus he is both present and absent\, absent in that he has left the earth\, present in that he has not left the faithful soul; or\, as he says himself: The world sees me no more\, but you see me. \n4\nJohn Henry Newman\, Parochial and Plain Sermons\, VI\, 121-127; Word in Season III\, 2nd ed.
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