Saturday, April 25, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 19.
(Youcat answer) The Church draws her life and strength
from Sacred Scripture.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 103) For this reason, the Church has always venerated
the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord's Body. She never ceases to present to
the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God's Word and
Christ's Body (Cf. DV 21). (CCC 104) In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly
finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human
word, "but as what it really is, the word of God" (Th 2:13; cf. DV
24). "In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to
meet his children, and talks with them" (DV 21). (CCC 141) "The
Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures as she venerated the Body of
the Lord" (DV 21): both nourish and govern the whole Christian life.
"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path" (Ps 119:105;
cf. Isa 50:4).
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment)
Besides the presence of Christ in the
Holy Eucharist, there is nothing that the Church honors more reverently than
Christ’s presence in Sacred Scripture. At Holy Mass we receive the Gospel
standing, because in the human words we hear, God himself speaks to us.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 131) "And such is the force and power of the Word
of God that it can serve the Church as her support and vigor and the children
of the Church as strength for their faith, food for the soul, and a pure and
lasting fount of spiritual life" (DV 21). Hence "access to Sacred
Scripture ought to be open wide to the Christian faithful" (DV 22). (CCC 132)
"Therefore, the study of the sacred page should be the very soul of sacred
theology. The ministry of the Word, too - pastoral preaching, catechetics and
all forms of Christian instruction, among which the liturgical homily should
hold pride of place - is healthily nourished and thrives in holiness through
the Word of Scripture" (DV 24). (CCC 133) The Church "forcefully and
specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful... to learn the surpassing
knowledge of Jesus Christ, by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures.
‘Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ’ (DV 25; cf. Phil 3:8 and
St. Jerome, Commentariorum in Isaiam
libri xviii prol.: PL 24, 17B). (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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