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Eternal Rhythms in Christmas Liturgy
The talk explores the spiritual significance of the rhythm of time in the context of Christian liturgy, focusing particularly on the Christmas celebrations and the symbolic meanings behind the three masses of Nativity. It emphasizes the metaphor of "evening and morning" as a way to understand the cyclical nature of divine grace and spiritual renewal inherent in the Christian life. The discussion juxtaposes temporal time with eternal time, using the birth of Christ and its associated liturgical practices as examples of how these concepts are realized within the church's traditions.
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Old Testament and New Testament: Referenced to illustrate the continuity in the theme of "evening and morning" and the history of salvation.
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Prophet Daniel: Mentioned in the context of prophecy regarding the unfolding timeline until the coming of the Lord.
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Ephesians (Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians): Provides the theological foundation for the discussion of the "age of Christ" and the Christian life cycle.
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Midnight Mass, Mass at the Rising of the Sun, Third Mass: Detailed to highlight their connection with the divine sanctification of time and the overarching theme of salvation.
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Holy Triduum: Contextualized as a time of meditation on the themes discussed, particularly aligning with New Year's preparations.
Through this meditation on the rhythm of time, the talk invites reflection on personal and communal spiritual transformations as part of the ongoing Christian journey.
AI Suggested Title: Eternal Rhythms in Christmas Liturgy
Maybe I'll get to the middle of this. I can't do all of that. I'll forgive you. Actually, I know it's amazing, Andrew. I can't do it. [...] mother and dear mothers and sisters. It's always a great joy indeed to realize that too for me to come back to suffer into this place which in so deepest sense has become a second going through your infinite patience and charity that we have shown to me in those
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critical weeks after the illness and which has meant so much to me and also to our community at Barcy. So I rejoice interiorly this special grace be able to help you at least in a very small way in the time of this holy Triduum that you celebrate in preparation of the New Year of the Lord, 1959. And in thinking about a topic which would make it easier to make these three days fruitful for your souls, a words came into my mind which is so completely simple and still so full of meaning, a word which expresses the divine sanctification of the rhythm of time.
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It was evening, and it was morning, one day. In these words, the inspired word of God leads us into the inner spiritual meaning of the rhythm of time. It's a word which has independent applications in the course of that lesson history, in which God was leading his chosen people into salvation. In the Old as well as in the New Testament, it was evening and it was morning one day. If you, for example, apply these words to that holy feast of the inactivity of our thought,
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that we have just celebrated the Christmas feast, a feast that means so much to you, and members of the society of the Holy Child Jesus. This Christmas Day we have celebrated through three masks, one at midnight, one at the rising of the sun, and one when the sun was in full power, and boomed over the dead. And these three masters items there was a beautiful application of that word. It was evening, and it was morning, There is the midnight lapse.
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Sometimes you can read in explanations of the liturgy of the Nativity of the Lord that these three masses of Christmas treat three different themes or aspects in which the Lord is born. At the midnight mass takes us into that eternal regeneration of the world upon the Father. Hence that the mass in the morning puts before us the mystery of the earthly nativity, the historical birthday of the world-made flesh. is that the third hour of Christmas then reminds us of the birth of our Lord in the soul of every Christian.
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Now there's always wrong to those explications, but if one examines the varying texts of the liturgy And if one has picked one's way a little into the mind of church and the way in which she composes and exacerbates the mysteries of salvation, what finds that this explanation is there cannot be a lie to these three masses in any strict or exclusive way. There's one fact which is immediately outstanding, and that is that the Church in the liturgy does not separate and distinguish things, but that she sees things.
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in the fullness of the spirit of this messianic age. And the spirit of this messianic age is not a spirit of dividing the times. As the Old Testament was a period of expectation, which was going on through the course of the year, and it waged the years without it, in which finally the prophet Daniel gave us an approximate number even for those years we still had to go by until the angel of the Lord would come to us. But this, our age, our Christian year, Where we speak, certainly on various years, we say 1958, and we say 1959 and 1960.
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We count, but what do we count? Something absolutely unimportant and accidental. And all these various governments calling to which we count the years, they are all alone. prohibited in that one expression, the Year of the Lord. All these years, 1957, 58, 59, they are all about, and they all are the World Year of the Lord, the Augusta. And that is where they receive their name, and that is the name of their Esther, and the numbers are accident. They are all part of the slow flow of time in which we, of course, still stand before the second cover of our floor when there will be no more event.
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This one year of adult this unstopingly expresses the inner essence of our Christian age. And therefore it's an age of comprehensive totality. And wherever the church celebrates, she celebrates the hope with what can say that in the Jewish sense of the word, a truly Catholic God. one may also call it a contemplative mind, comprehensive mind. Every Mass contains the total mystery of our salvation. And so also the activity of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, this blessed night and blessed night, I was celebrated each time in each of the three Masses,
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in its formos and totality. And still, just as the one year of the goal, images will receive a new complete realization in each temple here in 1957, 1958, 1959. So also, the fullness of salvation of every marriage celebrating on Christmas Day, still receives a special determination by the very time into which it enters, and that is the night, and that is the rising of the sun, and that is the fullness of the day, evening and morning water. The mass at midnight really receives its specific note by the fact that this year the Spokely Mysterium is celebrated when night was near.
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A night for the treasure is the hour of darkness before the telegraphy. And therefore this midnight map is full of these facts that darkness covers the earth. We find Our Lady and Joseph, first of all, we find them there in the cave. What does that mean in the cave? That means not in the realm of men, not in man's city. But outside, as Holy Scripture says, extra-genital, outside of the city, outside of the community life of man.
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Then immediately, my dear sister sweet-mindedness, for another moment, in which darkness took over. And where our Lord was found, outside the city gates. I need the hour of order. I need the hour of the crucifixion. Our Lord's darkness is earthly day, is daily on earth. He starts it with the ear in the night. And everything that we see there, dark to him in the cave, is in itself a symbolic prophetic figure of what will happen to him in the hour of darkness when he is crucified.
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He is being wrapped its swaddling glow. If that is an indication of his being found, his being hidden. The little blade that is wrapped in swaddling glow is the prophetic figure of the one who will be led captive. Outside the city gates, there will be Nailed to the cross. In Uber. He is laid into the manger. Just as he is taken down from the party. And laid into the tomb. So the mystery of this midnight lapse. Really appreciate us in every breath. The mystery of the tribe.
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And that is the source and is the beginning of the new era of all Christian salvation. That's what we should keep in mind. The evening is the beginning of the new day. And therefore our God tomorrow, the first day of your tribute, would be devoted to the radiation of this When this world was set, the evil, at the evil tide of this world, then the world began as appeared to us. In this darkness, then a light shines brightly, and that light is what
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is birthed then by the angel who gives the glad tidings and interprets this sign, which is to be found there in the cave, outside the city gate, wrapped in swaddling wool, and they lie in the manger. That sign is there in Egypt. You will find the Savior. Christ is not the Lord. This beautiful message of the angel. There is in itself another application and interpretation of evil. and brought in water even in the Saviour, the Lamb of God, the one who blames the price, the Saviour, who redeems the captives.
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Binds the bank with the high price, the price of his growth, the Saviour. Christ That means the anointed. The oil is the secret of spirit. We speak of the oil of the darkness with which our Jesus was anointed. That is the morning. One day, curious, the Lord. Who are the one who is? thrown at the right hand of his father as the king, the ruler of the new day. Then we had a second man, and then this man, and the rising of the sun.
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And all the things of that man are determined by this I did this situation. It's the warning. Rising up the sun. Looks bulging it for. The light shines forth today. And it's in trouble. Find the key words in the gospel. A better chance of the house. Let us pass over to me. That is the key word of us, of the transits. From the dying to the dead, the final compass. At this moment, what is done is finally, the shepherds get together and enjoy. In joyful days, they go over to bed there.
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That means they eat the penis and their sheep. and they go into the city of the city and there they guide the shop and they are there too then it is the past that is the transition from the night into the day and being in the act of adoption just this in the instant and then comes the third verse and that third verse The child is born to us. The son is given to us. And a power on his shoulders. Again you see my distance that he even had more than one day.
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Even if a child is born to us, that is me. The world made as the process. The world improved. Everything is made. This world... This world... This world... keep still, made, made out of a woman, made under the law, as a force. That is the extent, that is as it were, the setting of the sun. That is the extent of the sun of glory, even to the ocean of this chaotic world, the world of a depression, a charm. But this child, Lord, was a sovereign giver to us.
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The one who was born was given. His word is given. His disdainment is the beginning of it when I was a sovereign giver to us. a song given to us that means every one of us receiving our children, not born out of the wind of man and out of the blood, but born out of sin. And power upon his shoulders, even me, or me, The curious, though not present, don't forget to apply to you. This vast therefore of the day leads us into the folemism of the wonderful moon's power upon his shoulders.
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The key. Eternal word of God made to face, and we see his glory. as we see the full glory of the Son, at this third hour at nine o'clock, when this Mass is celebrated, in the very church, which is in Salem, the promise of the entire prophecy, or symbol of the entire Catholic world, and we dare and walk this previous terrible soul down it, At all the ends of the earth see his glory. That is the dawn of day. That is the climax of the church's celebration of Christmas. See this wonderful youth celebration itself. Conquancy.
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Like the divine wisdom which reaches all the from the beginning to the end, its weakness has still been up. Evening and loving water. This one Christmas day represents to us the rhythm, essential rhythm of our own life. In so far as this our own life is evidence. in the natural development and rhythm of time. And in this rhythm of time, we'll constantly be filled with a new life. A new life that descends to us and reaches us in the evening, leads us into the rising light of morning, held into the fullness
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of that life which fills the entire earth then with its life anymore. So let us then apply these three stages also to our own present life in these three days. Let us speak about that redeeming life of God that reaches us in the evening. and in the morning water, even in the beginning, that is the moment in which we experience with any vice the hour of darkness. Rising out of this into the morning, that is the freshness of our Christian, an eternal beginning, and then One day, that is the fullness of the age of Christ, that St.
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Paul speaks about in his masterful epistle to the Ephesians. That is the rhythm of our own Christian life. There are the stages to which also our religious love constantly goes to these stages. Therefore let us and I invite the food to ask him still that he may help us to see the eternal light of the word of God. The evening and the morning has the one full day. We will keep us up with the record. But please try that prophet to Jesus. Thou never fear upon him. And thou will not come from Jesus. It's great to be.
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Thanks for being here to my whoops. Me burn on the street. All. But the tiger boy took the ark of the book. It was still looking for the book. For the idols of the stranger had born. But we who have received that lecture, need provide to thee, Jesus, the true aesthetic force. Jesus provides what water. Jesus begins the concept of a monster. Jesus died of a monster. Jesus died of a monster. Jesus died of life. He will be who I am. Jesus does love it. with fleshly, with blood. Jesus died like a plant, with blood, [...] with
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Jesus, Regina, and Sinead are still in the last name. Jesus, God, and God, all the rest of us.
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