Twenty-Third Week Ordinary Time 11 September 2013
COMMENT:
Why is Origen not a Saint?
Or at least a revise of the Cause?
?
This morning the voice for love of Gentiles and
Israelites, ourselves, was heard from Origen.
His exactness and precision of enfolding words may
buffer us the flow, but his spirit, the gentleness and enkindling of heart, awakens our hearts.
Or maybe it is Hosea who awakes the Holy Spirit.
After a week of off-putting Readings of the prophet Amos
we are relieved by Hosea.
The Origen outreach goes to the souls, mind and heart,
each and one, to the embrace of the Father of his children.
WEDNESDAY 11th Sept. Monastic Office of Vigils.
First Reading
Hosea 1:1-9; 3:1-5
Responsory Hos 2:19-20.16
I will betroth you to myself forever, betroth you with righteousness and
justice, with tenderness and love. + I
will betroth you to myself with faithfulness, and you will come to know the Lord.
V. When that day comes you will call me My husband; you
will no longer call me My Baal. + I will
betroth ...
Second Reading From a commentary on Romans by Origen. [In Rom,. 14, 1151-1152].
God says through Hosea: Those who were not my people I will call my people,
and the unloved I will call my beloved. And in the very place where they were told,
"You are not my people," they shall be called children of the living God.
This testimony, which the Apostle takes from
Hosea, seems to refer in the prophet not to the Gentiles but to the Israelites
themselves; but Paul uses a parallel situation as an example to make his point.
Just as when the Israelites, abandoned and without hope, were told, You are not my people, and I am not your God, and
yet in the very place where they were told,
"you are not my people" they will be called children of the living God,
so too, he says,
we whom God has called not only from
the Jews but also from the Gentiles, who formerly were not his
people, he has now called his people, and we who were unloved he has called his
beloved, and in the very place where we were told, You are not my people, we shall be called children of the
living God.
But perhaps the Jews will ask us where it was
said to us that we were not the people of God, so that in the same place we
might be called children of the living God. For they claim that God said this
in Judea, since only there was he known. None of this refers to us because the
law speaks to those who are under the law.
But I will tell of a far worthier place in
which it was fitting and possible for God to speak. It is hardly appropriate
for God to speak in the mountains and grottos and the other places where he is
said to speak, and fail to speak in the human mind, in the reason, in the sovereign
place of the heart. There, when conscience condemns us, convicting us of
unworthy actions that estrange us from God, there, in that same place it is declared,
there it is said to each one of us: You are
not my people. But if we each cleanse and purify ourselves from those
actions, and if the peace of God which is
beyond all understanding begins
to guard our hearts, there, in the depths of hearts now at peace, we shall with
the assent of our conscience be called children of God.
Responsorq
Rom 8:15-16.14
The Spirit you have received is the Spirit of adoption,
which makes
us cry out, Abba, Father. + The Spirit himself and our spirit bear united witness that we
are children of God.
V. All who are led by the Spirit of God are children of
God. + The Spirit ...
St. Origen? - OrthodoxChristianity.net
www.orthodoxchristianity.net › ... › General Forums › Christian News29 Sep 2003 - 12 posts - 7 authorsI am not saying that is the case, because I have not read much of either one, but it could explain why Augustine is a saint and Origen is not.+ + +
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