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FOURTH WEEK
OF EASTER
THURSDAY Year
I
30
April 2015
Second
Reading
From a treatise by Baldwin
of Canterbury (Tract.4:
PL 204,
429-431.441-442)
The two resurrections
Our Lord's glorious resurrection teaches us that the fruits of obedience are resurrection and
life. These were the fruit of the obedience practiced by Christ who is the
resurrection and the life personified.
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Message -----
From: William J .....
To: Donald ......
Sent: Thursday, 30 April 2015, 17:05
Subject: Re: Baldwin Cistercian
To: Donald ......
Sent: Thursday, 30 April 2015, 17:05
Subject: Re: Baldwin Cistercian
Dear Father
Donald,
Your comment:
Two
Resurrections... needs some enlightenment of Baldwin's explanation.
Please may I respond, for the extract fascinates me...
The burden of a twofold mortality [one, by virtue of being a descendant of
Adam, the second, of our having fallen of ourselves]
... a single resurrection is not enough
to bring us to the blessed life of heaven. We need two.
It is by our faith in and our sacramental imitation of the resurrection
of Christ [our earthly ‘conversio’], the resurrection of our soul, through
which we are now dead to sin and live for holiness, walking in newness of
life... glorying
in nothing other than in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ...
As we wait for that redemption of our bodies, at last fully
realizing our adoption as God's children, that will take place at the second resurrection [heavenly resurrection], when
Christ will refashion these wretched bodies of ours and make them like his own
glorious body... that endures for all eternity, a glory that knows no end...
Might that be summed up: [1] if our desire for God is faithfully lived
and by heart ‘raised up’, [2] it will lead by God’s grace to the
heavenly fulfilment of our desire to see His Face and to be embraced in His
Love...
In these thoughts my mind has been enraptured by the passage from
Luisa Piccarreta’s ‘The Holy Mass and Bodily Resurrection’ – that text has
quite absorbed me.
THANK YOU Father. May all be well with you.
With my love in Our Risen Lord,
William
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