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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:From the writing of \nFR ROMANO GUARDINI \n◊◊◊ \nWhat are “Apostles” really? Frankly; the impression we get from the New \nTestament hardly permits us to claim that these men were great or ingenious in \nthe worldly sense. It is difficult even to count them “great religious \npersonalities\,” if by this we mean bearers of inherent spiritual talents. John and \nPaul were probably exceptions\, but we only risk misunderstanding them both \nby overstating this. On the whole\, we do “Apostles” no service by considering \nthem great religious personalities. This attitude is usually the beginning of \nunbelief. Personal importance\, spiritual creativeness\, dynamic faith are not \ndecisive in their lives. What counts is that Jesus Christ has called them\, pressed \nhis seal upon them\, and sent them forth. \n“You have not chosen me\, but I have chosen you\, and have appointed you \nthat you should go and bear fruit”. Apostles then are those who are sent. It is \nnot they who speak\, but Christ in them. In his first Corinthian [letter] Paul \ndistinguishes nicely between the instructions of “the Lord” and what he\, Paul\, \nhas to say. The Lord’s words are commands; his own\, suggestions. Each apostle \nis filled with Christ\, saturated with thought of Christ; the Lord\, whom they \nrepresent\, is the substance of their life. What they teach is not what they have \nlearned from personal “experience” or “revelation\,” it is God’s word\, uttered \nupon God’s command: “Go\, therefore\, and make disciples of all nations \nteaching them to observe all that I have commanded you”. \nTo this end alone have the apostles been called\, and their very limitations \nseem an added protection to the truth they bear. When Jesus says: “I praise \nyou\, Father\, Lord of heaven and earth\, that you have hidden these things from \nthe wise and prudent\, and have revealed them to little ones”\, it is an outburst of \njubilation over the unutterable mystery of God’s love and creative glory. \nSpiritually\, the apostles are seldom more than “little ones;” [and it is] precisely \nthis [that] guarantees the purity of their role as messenger. \nTo be nothing in oneself\, everything in Christ; to be obliged to contain \nsuch tremendous contents in so small a vessel; to be a constant herald with no \nlife of one’s own; to forego once and forever the happy unity of blood and heart \nand spirit in all one does and is—something of the trials of such an existence \ndawns on us when we read the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians\, of that \nPaul who experienced so deeply the simultaneous greatness and \nquestionableness of apostledom: “For I think God has set forth us the apostles \nlast of all\, as men doomed to death\, seeing that we have been made a spectacle \nto the world\, and to angels\, and to men… We are reviled and we bless\, we are \npersecuted and we bear it\, we are maligned and we entreat\, we have become \nas the refuse of this world\, as the offscouring of all\, even until now!”
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-425/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Joseph the Worker
DESCRIPTION:From the writing of \nFR KARL RAHNER \n◊◊◊ \nIs it possible to think that anyone living today will be able to see himself or \nherself reflected in Joseph? Are there not people today who\, if they are true to \ntheir character as willed by God\, are a people of small means\, of hard work\, of \nonly a few words\, of loyalty of heart and simple sincerity? Certainly every \nChristian and every Christian nation is charged with the entire fullness of \nChristian perfection as a duty that is never completed. But every nation and \nevery person has\, so to speak\, his own door\, his own approach\, through which \nhe alone can come nearer to the fullness of Christianity. Not all of us will find \naccess to the boundless vistas of God’s world through the great gate of surging \nrapture and burning ardor. Some must go through the small gate of quiet loyalty \nand the ordinary\, exact performance of duty. And it is this fact\, I am inclined to \nthink\, that can help us to discover a rapport between earth and heaven\, between \nChristians today and their heavenly intercessor… \n[Joseph] received into his family the One who came to redeem his nation \nfrom their sin\, One to whom he himself gave the name of Jesus\, a name which \nmeans “Yahweh is Salvation.” Silent and loyal\, he served the eternal Word of the \nFather\, the Word who had become a child of this world. And they called their \nRedeemer the son of a carpenter. When the eternal Word was audible in the \nworld in the message of the gospels\, Joseph\, having quietly done his duty\, went \naway without any notice on the part of this world. \nBut the life of this insignificant man did have significance; it had one \nmeaning that\, in the long run\, counts in each one’s life: God and his incarnate \ngrace. To him it could be said: “Good and faithful servant\, enter into the joy of \nyour Lord.” Who can doubt that this man is a good patron for us? This man of \nhumble\, everyday routine\, this man of silent performance of duty\, of honest \nrighteousness and of manly piety\, this man who was charged with protecting the \ngrace of God in its embodied life… \nA nation needs men and women of life-long performance of duty\, of clear- \nheaded loyalty\, of discipline of heart and body. A nation needs those who know \nthat true greatness is achieved only in selfless service to the greater and holy \nduty that is imposed upon each life; those of genuine reverence\, conquerors of \nthemselves\, who hear the word of God and carry out the inflexible decrees of \nconscience. It needs those who through their lives bear the childlike\, defenseless \ngrace of God past all those who\, like Herod\, attempt to kill this grace. A nation \nneeds those who do not lose confidence in God’s grace\, even when they have to \nseek it as lost\, as Joseph once sought the divine child. \nSuch as these are urgently needed in every situation and in every class. We \nhave a good patron\, who is suitable for everyone. For he is a patron of the poor\, a \npatron of working men and women\, a patron of exiles\, a model for worshipers\, \nan exemplar of the pure discipline of the heart\, a prototype of fathers who \nprotect in their children the Son of the Father.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-joseph-the-worker-4/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Athanasius
DESCRIPTION:From the writing of \nST ATHANASIUS \n◊◊◊ \nIt is not a dark saying but a divine mystery. “In the beginning was the \nWord\, and the Word was with God\, and the Word was God”; but for our sakes \nafterwards the “Word was made flesh.” And the term in question\, “highly \nexalted”\, does not signify that the substance of the Word was exalted\, for He was \never and is “equal to God”\, but the exaltation is of His humanity. Accordingly\, \nthis is not said before the Word became flesh; that it might be plain that \n“humbled” and “exalted” are spoken of His human nature\, for where there is \nhumble estate\, there too may be exaltation; and if because of His taking flesh \n“humbled” is written\, it is clear that “highly exalted” is also said because of it… \nSince then the Word\, being the Image of the Father and immortal\, took \nthe form of a servant\, and as man underwent for us death in His flesh\, that \nthereby He might offer Himself for us through death to the Father; therefore \nalso\, as man\, He is said because of us and for us to be highly exalted\, that as by \nHis death we all died in Christ\, so again in the Christ Himself we might be highly \nexalted\, being raised from the dead\, and ascending into heaven… \nBut if now for us the Christ is entered into heaven itself\, though He was \neven before and always Lord and Framer of the heavens\, for us therefore is that \npresent exaltation also written. And as He Himself\, who sanctifies all\, says also \nthat He sanctifies Himself to the Father for our sake\, not that the Word may \nbecome holy\, but that He Himself may in Himself sanctify all of us\, in like \nmanner we must take the present phrase\, “He highly exalted Him”\, not that He \nHimself should be exalted\, for He is the highest\, but that He may become \nrighteousness for us; and we may be exalted in Him\, and that we may enter the \ngates of heaven\, which He has also opened for us\, the forerunners saying\, “Lift \nup your heads\, O ye gates\, and be ye lift up\, ye everlasting doors\, and the King of \nGlory shall come in.” For here also not on Him were shut the gates\, who is Lord \nand Maker of all\, but because of us is this too written\, to whom the door of \nparadise was shut. \nAnd therefore in a human relation\, because of the flesh which He bore\, it \nis said of Him\, “Lift up\, O ye gates”\, and “shall come in”\, as if humanity were \nentering; but in a divine relation on the other hand it is said of Him\, since the \n“Word was God”\, that He is the “Lord” and the “King of Glory”. For as Christ \ndied and was exalted as man\, so\, as man\, is He said to take what\, as God He ever \nhad\, that even this so high a grant of grace might reach to us.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-athanasius-4/
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