Monday, May 25, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 35 – Part II.
(Youcat answer -
repeated) We believe in one God in three persons (Trinity). “God is not solitude
but perfect communion.” (Pope Benedict XVI, May 22, 2005).
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 262) The Incarnation of God's Son reveals that God is
the eternal Father and that the Son is consubstantial with the Father, which
means that, in the Father and with the Father, the Son is one and the same God.
(CCC 236) The Fathers of the Church distinguish between theology (theologia) and economy (oikonomia). "Theology" refers
to the mystery of God's inmost life within the Blessed Trinity and
"economy" to all the works by which God reveals himself and
communicates his life. Through the oikonomia
the theologia is revealed to us; but
conversely, the theologia illuminates
the whole oikonomia. God's works
reveal who he is in himself; the mystery of his inmost being enlightens our
understanding of all his works. So it is, analogously, among human persons. A
person discloses himself in his actions, and the better we know a person, the
better we understand his actions.
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment)
Christians do not worship three different
Gods, but one single Being that is threefold and yet remains one. We know that
God is triune from Jesus Christ: He, the Son, speaks about his Father in heaven
(“I and the Father are one”, Jn 10:30). He prays to him and sends us the Holy
Spirit, who is the love of the Father and the Son. That is why we are baptized
“in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Mt 28:19).
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 249) From the beginning, the revealed truth of the Holy
Trinity has been at the very root of the Church's living faith, principally by
means of Baptism. It finds its expression in the rule of baptismal faith,
formulated in the preaching, catechesis and prayer of the Church. Such
formulations are already found in the apostolic writings, such as this
salutation taken up in the Eucharistic liturgy: "The grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with
you all" (2 Cor 13:14; cf. 1 Cor 12:4 - 6; Eph 4:4-6). (CCC 250) During
the first centuries the Church sought to clarify her Trinitarian faith, both to
deepen her own understanding of the faith and to defend it against the errors
that were deforming it. This clarification was the work of the early councils,
aided by the theological work of the Church Fathers and sustained by the
Christian people's sense of the faith.
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