Monday, July 25 : Origen

Everyone who sees Christ is not equally illumined by him, but rather, each one is illumined to the extent to which he is able to receive the light. The eyes of our body do not always receive the same amount of light from the sun; the more you rise up to a high place, the more you contemplate its rising from on high, the better you perceive its brilliance and its heat. In the same way, the more our mind goes up and rises towards Christ, the closer it is to the brilliance of his light in offering itself, the more magnificently and brilliantly it will be irradiated by his light. The Lord said this himself through the prophets: “Return to me (…) and I will return to you.” (Zec 1:3) (…) So we don’t all go to him in the same way, but each person goes “according to his abilities.” (Mt 25:14) We either go to him with the crowds and he nourishes us with parables, so that we don’t collapse on the way from fasting (Mk 8:3). Or we remain constantly at his feet, concerned only with listening to his word, without ever allowing ourselves to be troubled by the many cares in serving (Lk 10:38f.). (…) Without doubt, those who draw near to him in this way receive much more light. But if, like the apostles, we never go away, but “stand loyally by him in his temptations” (cf. Lk 22:28), he explains to us in secret what he said to the crowds, and he illumines us with even more light (Mt 13:11 f.). Finally, if he finds someone who is able to go up to the top of the mountain with him, like Peter, James and John, that person is not only illumined by the light of Christ, but by the voice of the Father himself.
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