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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nFR KARL RAHNER \n◊◊◊ \nThe doctrine of the Church of sinners is found explicitly or implicitly in \nother documents of the Second Vatican Council. In the Decree on Ecumenism it \nis admitted that for the separated brethren and for the world the face of the \nChurch is “less” resplendent because of the lack of Christian zeal and so the \ngrowth of God’s kingdom is retarded. The Church must everyday be ‘purified \nand renewed’ until she can present herself to Christ as the end ‘glorious and \nwithout spot or wrinkle’. \nTherefore there is no hesitation in addressing the church herself as the \nsubject of purification and renewal\, even if that from which she must be purified \nis indicated in somewhat too careful and mild a way (as a want of that ‘fervor’ \nwhich gives rise to the duty of striving after ‘perfectio christiana‘). But…an \nindication is also given that the want of ‘zeal’ and the necessity to strive after \n‘perfection’ have as their reason the sin within the Church. This becomes all the \nclearer when it is emphasized in this decree that this reformation must begin \nwith the ‘inner conversion’ to a ‘new mentality’. \nIt is true that a certain timidity becomes evident when the decree \nexplicitly speaks of the sins against unity and of the prayers for forgiveness\, \nwhere the subject of the sin and of the prayer for forgiveness is ‘we’ (no longer \nthe Church!). Similarly… the decree only speaks of the fact that the separations \nfrom the Catholic Church took place ‘not without the fault of men on either side’. \nHence there is fault also on the Catholic side\, but it is expressly laid at the door \nonly of her ‘men’\, which does not of course exclude a fault on the part of the \nChurch herself\, particularly since the persons immediately concerned in this \nfault are the officials of the Church who act juridically in the name of the \nChurch\, so that their fault affects the Church as such in a very palpable way. \nThe Church is indefectibly holy and therefore is repeatedly called with the \nCreed simply ‘Holy Church’. It is stated that the Church on earth has a true \nholiness though imperfect. One could be led from this into thinking simply that \nthe same is true of her holiness as is true of the holiness of the justified \nindividual: he is truly holy through the grace of justification but his holiness is \nstill in danger and has still to find its fulfillment and perfection. This holiness \nmust still be “actualized”. One could add that the decree furthermore explicitly \npresupposes that there are in the Church as a matter of fact such justified \npersons\, even persons in a state of great perfection.
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