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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nSERVANT OF GOD \nDOROTHY DAY \n◊◊◊ \nWhen the apostles wanted to call down fire from heaven on the \ninhospitable Samaritans\, the “enemies” of the Jews\, Jesus said to them\, “You \nknow not of what Spirit you are.” When Peter told Our Lord not to accept the \nway of the Cross and His own death\, He said\,”Get behind me\, Satan. For you are \nnot on the side of God but of men.” But He also had said\,”You are Peter and \nupon this rock I will build my church.” Peter denied Jesus three times at that \ntime in history\, but after the death on the Cross\, and the Resurrection and the \nDescent of the Holy Spirit\, Peter faced up to Church and State alike and said\, \n“We must obey God rather than humans.” Deliver us\, O Lord\, from the fear of \nour enemies\, which makes cowards of us all. \nThere is plenty to do\, each one of us\, working on our own hearts\, changing \nour own attitudes\, in our own neighborhoods. If the just person falls seven \ntimes daily\, we each one of us fall more than that in thought\, word\, and deed. \nPrayer and fasting\, taking up our own cross daily and following Him\, doing \npenance\, these are the hard words of the Gospel. \nAs to the Church\, where else shall we go\, except to the Bride of Christ\, one \nflesh with Christ? Though she is a harlot at times\, she is our Mother. We should \nread the Book of Hosea\, which is a picture of God’s steadfast love not only for the \nJews\, His chosen people\, but for His Church\, of which we are every one \nmembers\, or potential members. Since there is no time with God\, we are all one\, \nall one body\, Chinese\, Russian\, Vietnamese\, and He has commanded us to love \none another. \n“A new commandment I give\, that you love others as I have loved you\,” \nnot to the defending of your life\, but to the laying down of your life. \nA hard saying. Love is indeed a “harsh and dreadful thing” to ask of us\, of \neach one of us\, but it is the only answer. \n6 By Little and By Little. Dorothy Day Alfred A. Knopf\, 83\,pp.337-9.13
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nFR RENE LAURENTIN \n◊◊◊ \nIt is of the essence of the Christian message that we shall turn our gaze to \nthe future\, to the completion and consummation of all things which the Lord’s \nreturn will bring about. \nAt that time (already present in the eternity of God)\, the frontiers between \nthe earthly and the heavenly are abolished. The corporal world is transfigured\, \nGod is all in all. Time\, too\, is abolished for the Church. This fragmentary \nduration of time\, linked up with humanity’s advance along the road to their \nsalvation\, gives place to the infinitely simple rhythm of eternity: the rhythm of \nGod which gathers together every duration of time and heaps up every hope. \nHere the task of Mary\, as mother\, comes to and end\, but her love remains. For \nher\, at the heart of things\, nothing changes. It is the Church which changes\, and \nonly for the reason that its situation is modified. \nFrom the outset Mary had preceded the Church at every stage of its life\, \nand here we see the Church joining her once more. Between them there is no \nlonger any difference in the realm of place and time. The tension of nature over \nagainst heaven\, of time over against eternity\, has been abolished. At the end of \nthe journey\, there they are\, perfectly reunited in the place and at the time of \nwhich God is the measure… Mary was the first personal realization of what \nawaits the redeemed. She is that still\, but the distances have been done away \nwith. \n7 Court traité sur la Vierge Marie\, Lethielleux\, Paris\, 1967\, pp. 156-157; reprinted in ALectures chrétiennes pour notre \ntemps@ (M 82): 8 1971\, Abbaye d’Orval\, Belgium.15 \nThe Church continues to look at Mary in Christ\, but in a different way: no \nlonger as its future and as a token of its hope\, but only as the summit of its \ncommunion in Christ. The Church used to look at Mary [in the same way] as a \nfleet in the storm looks at the first ship which has crossed the bar and reached \nport. Now\, the Church has re-joined her at the end of the voyage. There is no \nlonger either separation or distance\, but common joy in reunion in Christ\, and \nthis dialogue between them is nothing but the overflowing abundance of their \nthanksgiving. \nIn this communion\, of which Christ is the beginning and the completion\, \nwe see again the situation of Pentecost: Mary in the Church\, but beyond this \nworld… The hierarchy\, which was the visible summit of the Church here below\, \nno longer has any purpose. The world of the signs and means of grace which it \nadministered in this lower world has passed away\, and only the realities \nremain… In the crowd of the redeemed\, ranged henceforth according to their \nunion with Christ and no longer according to their function\, the Mother of \nChrist occupies the first place\, without common measure with the others. She is \nseen in the pure truth of the situation in which God has placed her\, at a higher \nlevel of grace and glory than that of the others: between the Redeemer who \nreigns over her from the infinitude of his Godhead and the remainder of the \nredeemed whom she enfolds in her maternal love\, she exults in the joy of \nreunion. Here her Magnificat achieves completion.
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