Thursday, March 26, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 3 – Part IV.
(Youcat answer - repeated) God has placed in our hearts a
longing to seek and find him. St. Augustine says, “You have made us for
yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” We call this
longing for God Religion.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 30) "Let the hearts of those who seek the LORD
rejoice" (Ps 105:3). Although man can forget God or reject him, He never
ceases to call every man to seek him, so as to find life and happiness. But
this search for God demands of man every effort of intellect, a sound will,
"an upright heart", as well as the witness of others who teach him to
seek God. You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power
and your wisdom is without measure. And man, so small a part of your creation,
wants to praise you: this man, though clothed with mortality and bearing the
evidence of sin and the proof that you withstand the proud. Despite everything,
man, though but a small a part of your creation, wants to praise you. You
yourself encourage him to delight in your praise, for you have made us for
yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you (St. Augustine, Conf. 1, 1, 1: PL 32, 659-661).
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment) It is natural
for man to seek God. All of our striving for truth and happiness is ultimately
a search forthe one who supports us absolutely, satisfies us absolutely, and
employs us absolutely in his service. A person is not completely himself until
he has found God. “Anyone who seeks truth seeks God,whether or not he realizes
it” (St. Edith Stein).
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 282) Catechesis on creation is of major importance. It
concerns the very foundations of human and Christian life: for it makes
explicit the response of the Christian faith to the basic question that men of
all times have asked themselves (Cf. NA 2): "Where do we come from?"
"Where are we going?" "What is our origin?" "What is
our end?" "Where does everything that exists come from and where is it
going?" the two questions, the first about the origin and the second about
the end, are inseparable. They are decisive for the meaning and orientation of
our life and actions.
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