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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Friday
DESCRIPTION:From a sermon by \nST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN \n◊◊◊ \nNow let us contemplate the means which God’s Divine Wisdom actually \nadopted with a view to making Christ’s resurrection subservient to the \npropagation of His Gospel. He showed Himself openly\, not to all the people\, but \nto witnesses chosen before of God. It is\, indeed\, a general characteristic of the \ncourse of God’s providence to make the few the channels of His blessings to the \nmany; but in the instance we are considering\, a few were selected because only a \nfew could be made instruments… \nTo be witnesses of His resurrection it was necessary to have known our \nLord intimately before His death. This was the case with the Apostles; but it was \nnot enough. It was necessary that they should be certain it was He himself\, the \nvery same whom they had known before. You recollect how He urged them to \nhandle Him\, and be sure that they could testify to His rising again… But people \nare not easily prevailed upon to be faithful advocates of any cause. Not only is \nthe multitude fickle; but the best\, unless urged\, tutored\, disciplined to their \nwork\, give way; untrained nature has no principles. \nIt would seem\, then\, that our Lord gave His attention to a few because\, if \nthe few are gained\, the many will follow. To these few He showed Himself again \nand again. These He restored\, comforted\, warned\, inspired. He formed them to \nHimself\, that they might show forth His praise. That period of preparatory \nprayer\, meditation and instruction which the Apostles passed through under \nour Lord’s visible presence for forty days\, was to them something that could not \nhave been had they been following Him from place to place in public and mixing \nin the busy crowds of the world. \nSo much then in answer to the question: Why did Christ not show Himself \nto the whole Jewish people after His resurrection? – I ask in reply: what would \nhave been the purpose of it? – a mere passing triumph over sinners whose \njudgment is reserved for the next world. On the other hand\, such a procedure \nwould have interfered with\, even defeated\, the real object of His rising again\, \nnamely\, the propagation of His Gospel through the world by means of His own \nintimate friends and followers. \nWe\, too\, though we are not witnesses of Christ’s actual resurrection\, are so \nspiritually. By a heart awake from the dead\, and by affections set on heaven\, we \ncan as truly and without figure witness that Christ lives\, as they did. Whoever \nbelieves in the Son of God has the witness in themselves. Truth bears witness by \nitself to its Divine Author. Whoever obeys God conscientiously\, and lives holily\, \nforces all about them to believe and tremble before the unseen power of Christ. \nTo the world at large the believer does not witness; for few can see them \nnear enough to be moved by their manner of living. But to one’s neighbors one \nmanifests the Truth in proportion to their knowledge of the person; and some of \nthem\, through God’s blessing\, catch the holy flame\, cherish it\, and in their turn \ntransmit it. And thus in a dark world Truth still makes way in spite of the \ndarkness\, passing from hand to hand.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Saturday
DESCRIPTION:From the writing of \nFR BRUCE VAWTER \n◊◊◊ \nIn biblical faith the resurrection is something; something did occur to \naccount for the appearances of Jesus after his death. It is not to retreat into \nobscurity or equivocation to confess that we have no better way of defining that \nsomething than to call it resurrection. We cannot define what is indefinable in \nterms of human experience; we can only describe it in some fashion by the use of \nthe pictures we call analogies. The picture we use following the New Testament \nprecedent to describe both what God effected in Christ and\, with it as the \nproleptic example\, what its faith promises to all who share in God’s kingdom\, is \nmythical to the extent that\, taken in all literalness\, it might equally well serve to \ndescribe the resuscitation of a corpse\, which the New Testament does not intend \nto do… \nPaul…for all his insistence on the resurrection as a reality\, did not think of \nit as a resurrection of dead flesh: “Perhaps someone will say\, ‘How are the dead \nto be raised up? What kind of body will they have?’ A nonsensical question! \nThe seed you sow does not germinate unless it dies. When you sow\, you do not \nsow the full-blown plant but a kernel of wheat or some other grain. God gives \nbody to it as he pleases – to each seed its own fruition… So is it with the \nresurrection of the dead.” \nPaul admittedly tells us more about what\, in his view\, the resurrection is \nnot than what it is\, but at the same time he tells us enough to dissuade us from \ndismissing lightly the testimony of his senses\, which he joined to the witness of \nhis tradition. Here was a man quite conscious of the validity of what are \nsometimes thought to be modern and scientific objections to the idea of \nresurrection; a man convinced that something had occurred that he could only \ncall resurrection while regretting the inadequacy of the concept. Paul was as \nprepared as anyone today for demythologizing\, but he was not prepared to \ndisallow any fact out of his inability to explain it. Rather than deny the fact\, he \npreferred to retain the myth with all its attendant ambiguities.
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