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From: edward ...
To: Donald ....
Sent: Saturday, 28 July 2012, 14:48
Subject: Some more lines
Dear Father Donald, Here are some more lines. Perhaps you could give a
copy t o Heather.
Blessings from
fr Edward O.P.
Soteriologised
and Soteriologising
The
generalised scope of human life
is
glorious and unwavering.
It
is resumed in a dynamic godlikeness
in
which the model's the human life
of
the Incarnated Word,
providing
the deifying substance throughout,
ending
with an ascension into glory.
So
with the bodies of Enoch [v. Gn 5,24, Sirach 44,16, Jude 1,14-15] and Elias,
whose
lives like those of Jesus and Mary
ended
with their Ascensions.
Of
Enoch, little is known, except his justice.
Elias
is given a sainted status,
especially
by the Carmelites.
Called
to view the passage of God at Horeb
he
confronted him , after the passage
of
storm, earthquake and fire.
So
was his full scope of spiritualisation
made
present in his being,
a
rising theme starting at Carmel,
sharpened
at Horeb, where,
from
a cave he became aware of God
in
the whispering of a gentle breeze.
The
life of Elias bridged the gap
between
heaven and earth;
Moses was a designated leader and legislator.
When
at Tabor they appeared in converse with the Son
who
was Word and son of Mary,
Elias
had been assumed
in
what seemed a fiery chariot,
but
Moses not.
Here
Christ was the great disposer
soteriologised
and soteriologising in himself.
Mary's
Assumption is spread out
in
scale and quality by these precedents.
No
narrow experience her's but comprehending
all
humanity.
How
could she be Queen of Heaven without a body
which
assures a true transcendence also in depth,
a
body never to be lost but used?
How
else could religion be incarnational
not
only in its ultimate ending
but
in its beginnings as foundational,
as
stepwise with great leaps?
Elias's rise was through great labours
but
Mary's easeful rise was from those initial steps
of
Immaculate Conceiving and Assumption.
He
still displays signs of his origin
in
his complaints that he was alone,
the
final faithful prophet.
Mary
would not complain
of
her aloneness:
she
would share it at her Visitation;
share
it at her wordless Cross vigil;
no
comment offered but lasting through
rhe
last breath-drawing
of
her Son:
his
consummation for mankind.
Michelangelo's
pietà
with
its virginal calmness:
deepest
love lasting through physical death;
virginal,
god-like compassion which we,
forgetful
of the context, expect of her,
as
we count on her sustaining prayer
at
the death-hour of us each!
The
Assumption of Mary passes
from
completion to completion,
penetrative
and comprehensive,
takes
us already to the passing limits
in
the death of her Son.
The
maximum divine achieving
in
the triumph of the
mothering
of Zion's daughter,
vigorously
penetrative of all human hearts;
our
foyer-hearth
empowered
by her Son
who
is the eternal God !
Stykkishólmur
Iceland
27 July 2012
