Monday, June 8, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 38 – Part IV.
(Youcat answer - repeated) The Holy Spirit is the third
person of the Holy Trinity and has the same divine majesty as the Father and
the Son.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 119) "It is the task of exegetes to work,
according to these rules, towards a better understanding and explanation of the
meaning of Sacred Scripture in order that their research may help the Church to
form a firmer judgement. For, of course, all that has been said about the
manner of interpreting Scripture is ultimately subject to the judgement of the
Church which exercises the divinely conferred commission and ministry of
watching over and interpreting the Word of God" (DV 12 § 3). But I would
not believe in the Gospel, had not the authority of the Catholic Church already
moved me (St. Augustine, Contra epistolam
Manichaei 5, 6: PL 42, 176) (CCC 204) God revealed himself progressively
and under different names to his people, but the revelation that proved to be
the fundamental one for both the Old and the New Covenants was the revelation
of the divine name to Moses in the theophany of the burning bush, on the
threshold of the Exodus and of the covenant on Sinai. (CCC 205) God calls Moses
from the midst of a bush that bums without being consumed: "I am the God
of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob" (Ex 3:6) God is the God of the fathers, the One who had called and
guided the patriarchs in their wanderings. He is the faithful and compassionate
God who remembers them and his promises; he comes to free their descendants
from slavery. He is the God who, from beyond space and time, can do this and
wills to do it, the God who will put his almighty power to work for this plan.
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment)
When we discover the reality of God in
us, we are dealing with the working of the Holy Spirit. God sent “the Spirit of
his Son into our hearts” (Gal 4:6), so that he might fill us completely. In the
Holy Spirit a Christian finds profound joy, inner peace, and freedom. “For you
did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have
received the spirit of sonship [in whom] we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ (Rom 8:15b)”.
In the Holy Spirit, whom we receive in Baptism and Confirmation we are
permitted to call God “Father”.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 311) Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures,
have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and
preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. Thus
has moral evil, incommensurably more harmful than physical evil, entered the
world. God is in no way, directly or indirectly, the cause of moral evil (Cf.
St. Augustine, De libero arbitrio 1,
1, 2: PL 32, 1223; St. Thomas Aquinas, STh
I-II, 79, 1). He permits it, however, because he respects the freedom of his
creatures and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good from it: For almighty
God…, because he is supremely good, would never allow any evil whatsoever to
exist in his works if he were not so all-powerful and good as to cause good to
emerge from evil itself (St. Augustine, Enchiridion
3, 11: PL 40, 236).
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