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MAGNIFICANT Tues 30th
October 2012. Luke 13:18
MEDITATION OF THE DAY
The Mustard Seed
Whoever lives in me, whoever is taken up into me, is taken up in
resurrection. I am the
transformation.
As bread
and wine are transformed, so the world is transformed into me. The grain of mustard is
tiny, and yet its inner might does not rest until it overshadows all the world's plants.
Neither does my
Resurrection rest until the grave of the last soul has burst, and my powers have reached even to the
furthest-branch of creation.
You
see death; you feel
the descent to the end.
But death is itself a life, perhaps the most living life; it is the darkening depth of my
life, and the end is itself the beginning, and the descent is itself the soaring up ... Every horror became for my love a garment in which to conceal itself, a wall through which to
walk.
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR
Cardinal von Balthasar (+
1988) was an eminent Swiss
Catholic theologian and co-founder
of a religious community.
His extensive writings were
an important influence on Blessed John Paul II.
From ‘Heart of the World’ 1979.
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