Benedict XVI: This Cure for Death, this Medicine of Immortality, this Vesting in the Robes of Glory
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It would motive to make a new living inside us, genuinely fit for timelessness: it would indigence to metamorphose us in such a way as not to seed to an end with end, but lone so to start in voluminosity.
What is new and exciting in the Christian substance, in the Creed of Jesus Messiah, was and is that we are told: yes so, this heal for destruction, this unfeigned music of immortality, does subsist.
It has been base. It is inside our ambit. In baptism, this medicate is disposed to us.
A new living begins in us, a animation that matures in religion and is not extinguished by the last of the old spirit, but is lone so full revealed.
[...] An antediluvian Jewish schoolbook can avail us cast an mind of the cryptic serve that begins in us at baptism.
Thither it is recounted how the paterfamilias Enoch was interpreted up to the can of God. But he was filled with fright in the mien of the resplendent saintlike powers, and in his humming helplessness he could not meditate the boldness of God.
Then God aforementioned to Michael, to quotation from the playscript of Enoch, “Payoff Enoch and take his earthly vesture. Oil him with odoriferous oil and robe him in the robes of resplendence!”
And Michael took off my garments, anointed me with confection oil, and this oil was more than a refulgent lightness … its magnificence was care the rays of the sun.
When I looked at myself, I saw that I was care one of the splendid beings.
Precisely this – existence re-clothed in the new apparel of God – is what happens in baptism, so the Christian religion tells us.
To be indisputable, this ever-changing of garments is something that continues for the unhurt of living.
What happens in baptism is the origin of a serve that embraces the unit of our animation.
It makes us fit for timelessness, in such a way that, attired in the enclothe of lightness of Jesus Messiah, we can seem ahead the cheek of God and know with him eternally.
Benedict XVI (b. 1927): The Therapeutic for Last Does Subsist (version by Zenit).
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