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A Noite, na Tradição Bíblica judaico-cristã constitui uma realidade simbólica paradoxal. Se por um lado se constitui como uma oposição à Luz e, portanto, propícia ao pecado e ao afastamento de Deus – o caos – é simultaneamente correto afirmar-se que a Noite pode corresponder à ocasião propícia para o encontro com o Transcendente e, d’Ele receber a Revelação. De facto, em toda o Antigo Testamento a Noite traduziu sentimentos e estados de alma dos seus autores e personagens, como Jacob, Samuel, Job ou mesmo do salmista que reza durante a Noite. Já no Novo Testamento, a Noite opõe-se à Missão de Jesus Cristo e pode ser metáfora escatológica, ética ou espiritual – como a vivida pelo apóstolo Pedro diante do Ministério do seu Mestre. Numa e noutra parte a Noite constitui sempre uma realidade paradoxal que pode aterrorizar ou serenar a alma dos seus fiéis. Desta forma o experimentaram os hebreus durante a noite da Libertação e o celebraram ao longo de todas as gerações. Igualmente vivenciaram a Noite grandes Místicos da Igreja como João da Cruz ou Teresa do Menino Jesus, aquela Noite da Fé e da dúvida que arrebate quem suporta o silêncio de Deus. Mas é a Noite da Ressurreição de Jesus que transforma todas as outras – a Luz venceu as Trevas e a Noite faz-se Dia: O vere beata Nox.
Night, in the Judaeo-Christian Biblical Tradition constitutes a paradoxical symbolic reality. If on the one hand it is constituted as an opposition to the Light and therefore favourable to sin and to the distance from God - chaos - it is simultaneously correct to affirm that Night can correspond to the propitious occasion for the encounter with the Transcendent and from Him to receive Revelation. In fact, all over the Old Testament, (Night translated feelings and states of soul of its authors and characters, like Jacob, Samuel, Job or even the psalmist who prays during the Night. In the New Testament, on the other hand, Night is opposed to Jesus Christ's own Mission and can be an eschatological, ethical or spiritual metaphor - like the one lived by the apostle Peter before his Master's Ministry. Night is always a paradoxical reality that can either terrify or serenade the soul of its faithful. This is what the Hebrews experienced during the night of Liberation and they have celebrated it throughout all generations. Great Mystics of the Church like John of the Cross or Therese of Liseux also experienced the Night of Faith and Doubt that overwhelms those who endure God's silence. But it is the Night of the Resurrection of Jesus that transforms all the others - the Light overcomes the Darkness and Night becomes Day: O vere beata Nox.
Night, in the Judaeo-Christian Biblical Tradition constitutes a paradoxical symbolic reality. If on the one hand it is constituted as an opposition to the Light and therefore favourable to sin and to the distance from God - chaos - it is simultaneously correct to affirm that Night can correspond to the propitious occasion for the encounter with the Transcendent and from Him to receive Revelation. In fact, all over the Old Testament, (Night translated feelings and states of soul of its authors and characters, like Jacob, Samuel, Job or even the psalmist who prays during the Night. In the New Testament, on the other hand, Night is opposed to Jesus Christ's own Mission and can be an eschatological, ethical or spiritual metaphor - like the one lived by the apostle Peter before his Master's Ministry. Night is always a paradoxical reality that can either terrify or serenade the soul of its faithful. This is what the Hebrews experienced during the night of Liberation and they have celebrated it throughout all generations. Great Mystics of the Church like John of the Cross or Therese of Liseux also experienced the Night of Faith and Doubt that overwhelms those who endure God's silence. But it is the Night of the Resurrection of Jesus that transforms all the others - the Light overcomes the Darkness and Night becomes Day: O vere beata Nox.
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Noite Luz Paradoxo Noite Escura Vigília Pascal João da Cruz Teresa de Lisieux Night Light Paradox Dark Night Easter Vigil John of the Cross Thérèse of Lisieux