Friday, May 16, 2008

1 Cor 14, 18-20 Brothers, in your thinking be mature

(1 Cor 14, 18-20) Brothers, in your thinking be mature
[18] I give thanks to God that I speak in tongues more than any of you, [19] but in the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, so as to instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue. [20] Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. In respect to evil be like infants, but in your thinking be mature.
(CCC 682) When he comes at the end of time to judge the living and the dead, the glorious Christ will reveal the secret disposition of hearts and will render to each man according to his works, and according to his acceptance or refusal of grace. (CCC 681) On Judgment Day at the end of the world, Christ will come in glory to achieve the definitive triumph of good over evil which, like the wheat and the tares, have grown up together in the course of history. (CCC 2032) The Church, the "pillar and bulwark of the truth," "has received this solemn command of Christ from the apostles to announce the saving truth" (1 Tim 3:15; LG 17). "To the Church belongs the right always and everywhere to announce moral principles, including those pertaining to the social order, and to make judgments on any human affairs to the extent that they are required by the fundamental rights of the human person or the salvation of souls" (CIC, can. 747 § 2).

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