Thursday, June 11, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 39 – Part II.
(Youcat answer - repeated) Jesus of Nazareth is the Son,
the second divine person mentioned when we pray, “In the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Mt 28:19).
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 443) Peter could recognize the transcendent character
of the Messiah's divine sonship because Jesus had clearly allowed it to be so
understood. To his accusers' question before the Sanhedrin, "Are you the
Son of God, then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am"(Lk 22:70;
cf. Mt 26:64; Mk 14:61-62). Well before this, Jesus referred to himself as
"the Son" who knows the Father, as distinct from the
"servants" God had earlier sent to his people; he is superior even to
the angels (Cf. Mt 11:27; 21:34-38;
24:36). He distinguished his sonship from that of his disciples by never saying
"our Father", except to command them: "You, then, pray like
this: 'Our Father'", and he emphasized this distinction, saying "my
Father and your Father" (Mt 5:48; 6:8-9; 7:21; Lk 11:13; Jn 20:17).
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment)
Jesus was either an imposter who made
himself Lord of the Sabbath and allowed himself to be addressed with the divine
title “Lord” — or else he was really God. The scandal came when he
forgave sins. In the eyes of his contemporaries, that was a crime deserving
death. Through signs and miracles, but especially through the Resurrection, his
disciples recognized who Jesus is and worshipped him as Lord. That is the faith
of the Church.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 444) The Gospels report that at two solemn moments, the
Baptism and the Transfiguration of Christ, the voice of the Father designates
Jesus his "beloved Son" (Cf. Mt 3:17; cf. 17:5). Jesus calls himself
the "only Son of God", and by this title affirms his eternal
pre-existence (Jn 3:16; cf. 10:36). He asks for faith in "the name of the
only Son of God" (Jn 3:18). In the centurion's exclamation before the
crucified Christ, "Truly this man was the Son of God" (Mk 15:39),
that Christian confession is already heard. Only in the Paschal mystery can the
believer give the title "Son of God" its full meaning. (CCC 445)
After his Resurrection, Jesus' divine sonship becomes manifest in the power of
his glorified humanity. He was "designated Son of God in power according
to the Spirit of holiness by his Resurrection from the dead"(Rom 1:3; cf.
Acts 13:33). The apostles can confess: "We have beheld his glory, glory as
of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth" (Jn 1:14).
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