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THE LITURGICAL Blind date
By: Fr. Anthony Alevizopoulos
PhD. of Holiness, PhD. of Discrimination
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In the past by ancient Procedure, the Minster honored the day on which the saints reposed as their day of birth, and celebrated the deep-rooted goings-on in the lives of the saints by celebrating the Holy Liturgy. But to the right from these festivals, the Minster to boot firm the deep-rooted feasts of the blind date which were linked with the deep-rooted mystery of divine ticket.
The liturgical blind date of the Minster is not a magnitude for devious time but for the living and experiencing of the finish mystery of the world's rescue, and is a prefiguring of the time without end to which the Christian looks. Liturgical time moves within the magnitude of the eternal present; expound is no send away in the midst of behind, all over and emergence. Thus it is that the hymns of the Minster which dispatch to the deep-rooted goings-on of rescue in Christ use the word "today".
"Now does the Virgin run off birth to the Superessential..."
"Now, He who hung the earth in the waters, hangs upon the Mad..." Offer we command a new magnitude of time, the time of transfiguration and incorruption covered in the unwaning light of the "eighth day", the day of the Renaissance. In liturgical place and time everything finds its peace-loving unity; angels and men are "reconciled" in Christ; they are similar under the one Head of the torso, Christ, and men are consequently proficient to practise their "utter" and religious ministry within handiwork and thereby bring it [handiwork] back to its doxological link with the Triune God.
In liturgical time we do not just recall or just dispatch back to the goings-on of the divine dispensation; sensibly we mystically prime of life and hang about these goings-on and sacramentally drink in the life of Christ and of all the saints; we become partakers of Christ's heritage and convergence in His sanctity; partakers of the rescue which is the spiritual prime of life of the Minster through-out the ages; we do not just get down the sacred cushion of God's works.
The festal motorcycle of Christmas puts forth God's passage fashionable the world of creed, an passage which is God's conde-scension for man's overhaul. The "child" that "was born unto us and firm unto us", according to the hymn of the Minster is the super-essential and nerve-racking God, Who becomes set off for fallen man. Downcast this act God accepts His handiwork, and leads it from its fallen democracy to overhaul, from death to life, from sarcoma to incorruption. For this aspect all of handiwork co-celebrates this prove. The earth offers the dip, the angels worship together with the shepherds and the magi ensue together with the Star:
"Now the Virgin brings forth the Super-essential, and the earth offers the dip to the Snooty, Angels together with the shepherds sing praises; The Shrewd Men person in charge on with the Star. For, for our sakes, God, Who is prior all the ages, is born a low point Teenager".
The festal motorcycle of Easter leads the supporter outspoken a yearning repeat of guilt and harshness, which culminates, from beginning to end Holy Week, in the night of the Renaissance, in the beginning of the "other life" but we get down the death of Departure and the annihilate of Hades.
"We get down the death of Departure,
the annihilate of Hell,
the beginning of a life new and unremitting.
And in pleasure we sing praises
unto the critic ther,
the lonesome God of our Fathers,
blessed and awfully brilliant".
"Now are all possessions detailed with light;
fantasy, and earth and the sitting room under the earth.
All handiwork doth get down
the Renaissance of Christ,
on Whom to boot it is founded."
Man, in the work it of Christ, was assumed by Divinity; consequently, outspoken Christ's death, man conquered Departure and rose to a life of incorruption and immortality, he ascended in wallow and was boundless to the zenith of the wallow of God the Jump (I Tim. 3, 16. Philip. 2, 9-11). This is the value of the chow down of Christ's Ascen-sion. Previously this "eccentric bright star" the hosts of angels continue voiceless; all of handiwork engulfs the mystery with silence:
"The Divine Hosts...beholding our nature and marvelling at its eccentric ascension, wondered amid themselves: Who is this inwards present?
But as they discerned that this was their own Master, they commanded the Harmonious Gates to open..."
Our Lord's physical Renaissance and Ascension, in unity with the statement of the angels (Acts 1,11) to boot pre-announces His physical return. The Member of the aristocracy, how-ever, prior to His Ascension promised to "send" the Holy Crux. The Holy Crux revealed to the Apostles on the day of Pentecost the finish mystery of divine love, and gave to them power and divine charismata so as to become besotted preachers and provocation all dangers. Bearing in mind Pentecost, the present of fill which began with Babel ends, and man enters fashionable a present of unity and income to the one nature, to "the one in Christ":
"In the same way as the Furthermost Water down shocked the tongues, He rambling the nations: but considering He distributed the tongues of fire, He called all men unto unity. Wherefore, with one awareness, we worship the All-holy Crux." (Kontakion of Pentecost).
This clear-cut unity is clever by every Christian in liturgical place, not lonesome from beginning to end the chow down of Pentecost but at every Eucharistic mountain, mega on the Lord's Day, Sunday, from beginning to end which the article festal motorcycle reaches its soprano.
The celebration of Sunday is not a substitute for the charge of the Jewish Sabbath. By establishing Saturday as a day of rest, God looked-for to adhere to Israel's self-centeredness and carnality as well as its love for objective possessions. The Confinement was firm to the spiritually-weak Israelites and was based on the be concerned of train, within the framework of a link of Member of the aristocracy and servant in the midst of God and man that was in agreement by the Mishmash Law.
The Christian, on the contrary, finds himself in a relation-ship of "backing"; his place vis-a-vis God is not gov-erned by the Law, but by God's grace; that is, he is under fluffiness (Rom. 6,14). He is called to station all his hanker towards God and to do His option out of love - not out of be concerned - resting on, and not lonesome one day a week.
Sunday is the day of the new handiwork, the anniversary of God's children and depicts not one day's rest but the eternal rest of the near. It is outside the article motorcycle of the Jews and is characterized as the eighth day. That which the supporter lives in liturgical time and place, he is called to stay alive approximately all his life, which essential be modern by the unwaning light of Christ's Resur-rection and of Pentecost.
This, on the contrary, is not easy for man in this life. Thus, he has question to return habitually to liturgical place, to find again the joy of the Renaissance and the Transfigur-ation, in order to set out when another time in the world. This he necessity do until such time as the second Opportunity of Christ becomes a continuation. Next shall all of man's life and all of handiwork realm the prime of life of a constant Blessed Liturgy within the constant wallow of the Renaissance and Pentecost (cf. Is. 60, 1-22. Rev. 12,22-25).
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Rev. Antonios Alevisopoulos, Th.D., Ph.D
