Ascent: In Christ, we are included in his self-giving
within divine life. How? In baptism we enter in his death, and emerge alive to
the power his resurrection. This continues in contemplation and prayer, in
sacrament and worship: we are raised to breathe from the air which Christ
himself breathes in his eternal communion with the Father.
This is nothing else
than our ordinary life made extraordinarily ample within Christ’s relationship with
the Father, so that our story also becomes Christ’s story told and relived
within the Godhead. ‘This relationship is the path we must tread … so that we
may embrace the loving obedience of faith. Nor is it our work: it is the
Father’s “work” within us (Jn 6.28-29). It is the Father and Son “making their
home” in us (14.23)’. p. 189 (cf. ff. spiritual fruit Gal 5)[1]
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