Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 18 – Part I.
(Youcat answer) In the New Testament God’s Revelation is
completed. The four Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the
centerpiece of Sacred Scripture and the most precious treasure of the Church.
In them the Son of God shows himself as he is and encounters us. In the Acts of
the Apostles we learn about the beginnings of the Church and the working of the
Holy Spirit. In the letters written by the apostles, all facets of human life
are set in the light of Christ. In the Book of Revelation we foresee the end of
the ages.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 124) "The Word of God, which is the power of God
for salvation to everyone who has faith, is set forth and displays its power in
a most wonderful way in the writings of the New Testament" (DV 17; cf. Rom
1:16) which hand on the ultimate truth of God's Revelation. Their central
object is Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son: his acts, teachings, Passion and
glorification, and his Church's beginnings under the Spirit's guidance (Cf. DV
20). (CCC 125) The Gospels are the
heart of all the Scriptures "because they are our principal source for the
life and teaching of the Incarnate Word, our Saviour" (DV 18).
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment) Jesus
is everything that God would like to tell us. The entire Old Testament prepares
for the Incarnation of God’s Son. All of God’s promises find their fulfillment
in Jesus. To be a Christian means to unite oneself ever more deeply with the
life of Christ. To do that, one must read and live the Gospels. Madeleine Delbrêl
says, “Through his Word God tells us what he is and what he wants; he says it
definitively and says it for each individual day. When we hold our Gospel book
in our hands, we should reflect that in it dwells the Word that wants to become
flesh in us, desires to take hold of us, so that we might begin his life anew
in a new place, at a new time, in a new human setting.”
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 128) The Church, as early as apostolic times (Cf. 1 Cor
10:6, 11; Heb 10:1; l Pt 3:21), and then constantly in her Tradition, has
illuminated the unity of the divine plan in the two Testaments through
typology, which discerns in God's works of the Old Covenant prefigurations of
what he accomplished in the fullness of time in the person of his incarnate
Son.
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