By Olivier Clément
By means of linking jointly a sequence of brilliantly selected texts from the early centuries of the Church, the writer lays naked the roots of the deeply mystical spirituality that has flourished between Christians in the course of the a while. it is a publication that might entice someone who's drawn to the sector of spirituality; it's a masterly contribution to Christian scholarship.
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It was dismayed because it was trampled on; it was in bitterness because it was deceived. It had taken hold of a body and was confronted by God. It had taken hold of the visible, and the invisible had routed it. Death, where is thy sting? Where, hell, thy victory? Christ is risen and thou art brought to nothing. Christ is risen and the devils are fallen. Christ is risen and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen and life has prevailed. Christ is risen, and the dead are delivered from the grave. For Christ, risen from the dead, is become the first fruits of those who sleep.
Blessed be the Holy One of God who has sprung from thee. jAMES OF SARUG Hymn to the Mother of God (Bickell, I p. 24 6) The virginity of the Mother of God does not deny eros but sets it free. It has always been recognized, from the ancient myths down to Freud himself, that love and death, eros and thanatos, are inseparable. In Mary's virginal motherhood, her fruitful virginity, we see transcendence intervening to snatch love out of the hands of death, and so fulfilling in embryo the expectation of humanity and of the cosmos, and setting in motion the universal transfiguration.
Christ is risen, and the dead are delivered from the grave. For Christ, risen from the dead, is become the first fruits of those who sleep. To him be glory and might for ever and ever. Amen. joHN CHRYSOSTOM Paschal Homily (Office of Matins for Easter in the Byzantine Rite) By the Ascension the Body of Christ, woven of our flesh and of all earthly flesh, entered the realms of the Trinity. Henceforward the creation is in God, it is the true 'burning bush' according to Maximus the Confessor. At the same time it remains buried in the darkness of death and separation because of humanity's hatred and cruelty and irresponsibility.