The wisdom to hear the song

The Wisdom to Hear the Song

The liturgy sings the birth of new life springing from Christ on the cross. Our experience, in him, becomes an experience of unity…. Because Christ brings all things together in personal communion, no aspect of our existence is left out. Everything has a meaning and comes to fruition in the victory of love. Life and death, pain and joy, fugitive time and the eternity that already dwells in us, failure and success, our sin and our repentance, all have their note to sing in the supreme liturgy of the eternal pasch. Through the Bible, we can follow the orchestral crescendo as it unfolds on the different levels of our experience…the variations and the whole orchestration of all human life.

This is why we can in all honesty say that the Christian experience, even now, is an experience of full perfection…. The first song rises from the fullness of man’s heart when he is set free (Ex 15); it is the pasch. The last song, the song that will last forever and be eternally a new song,will rise from the hearts of all men and all creation in the radiant newness of God, when he has become all things to all men. The Song of Moses will become the song of the Lamb (Rv 15:1-4), and this is the eternal covenant: They shall be his people, and he will be their God; his name is God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness. The world of the past has gone…. Now I am making the whole of creation new (Rv 21:3-5).

Father Jean Corbon, o.p.