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Contemplation and Action: Both Oriented Towards the Service of God
According to the exposition of Gregory on action (represented by Martha) and contemplation (represented by Mary), monks and nuns with regard to their vocation, are united in Christ by their respective approaches to the Lord. Christ Himself engaged in both methods—the active and the contemplative—during His visible/public life. He spent nights in prayer and he also spent many days healing the sick, teaching those who would listen, and visiting many throughout the land. His example corresponds with the dual example set by the two sisters, Mary and Martha. Martha engaged in the active service of serving the followers of Christ, while Mary engaged in the contemplative service of hanging on Christ’s every look and word. Both are essential to the life of the Church, as each performs a specific and necessary function in the Mystical Body. The Mystical Body is there to assist us in fulfilling the two basic commands described by Christ as the most important for a person to obey: 1) Love God, and 2) Love your neighbor. In order to love God, one must be willing to spend time alone in prayer with God (and Mary represents...
Their vocations are based on this calling and while Gregory saw no need to institutionalize one over the other, he did recognize the merits of allowing the religious to exercise their callings as God preferred. Thus some monks or nuns or would be more contemplative than others and some would be more active than others.
When Gregory wrote his exposition, he was explaining the nature of the religious life and breaking it down into its two basic component parts and describing how both were vital to the life of the Church and to the fulfillment of the interior life and the vocation of the religious.[footnoteRef:1] He was also validating the existence of the monastery in human society and showing that it had a specific and precise spiritual place in the world. His exposition justified the roles of both vocational aspects of the religious community: those who were…
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