Friday, July 31, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 56 - Part V.
(Youcat answer - repeated) Yes. Man is
the summit of creation, because God created him in his image (Gen 1:27).
A
deepening through CCC
(CCC 380 "Father,… you formed man in
your own likeness and set him over the whole world to serve you, his creator,
and to rule over all creatures" (Roman
Missal, EP IV 118). 380
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment)
The creation of man is clearly distinguished
from the creation of other living things. Man is a person, which means that
through his understanding and will he can decide for or against love.
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 360) Because of its common origin the human race forms a unity; for
"from one ancestor [God] made all nations to inhabit the whole earth"
(Acts 17:26; cf. Tob 8:6): O wondrous vision, which makes us contemplate the
human race in the unity of its origin in God… in the unity of its nature,
composed equally in all men of a material body and a spiritual soul; in the
unity of its immediate end and its mission in the world; in the unity of its
dwelling, the earth, whose benefits all men, by right of nature, may use to
sustain and develop life; in the unity of its supernatural end: God himself, to
whom all ought to tend; in the unity of the means for attaining this end;… in
the unity of the redemption wrought by Christ for all (Pius XII, encyclical, Summi Pontificatus 3; cf. NA 1).
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 56 - Part IV.
YOUCAT Question n. 56 - Part IV. Does man have a special place in creation?
(Youcat answer - repeated) Yes. Man is
the summit of creation, because God created him in his image (Gen 1:27).
A
deepening through CCC
(CCC 361) "This law of human
solidarity and charity" (Pius XII, Summi
Pontificatus, 3), without excluding the rich variety of persons, cultures
and peoples, assures us that all men are truly brethren. 361
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment)
The creation of man is clearly
distinguished from the creation of other living things. Man is a person, which
means that through his understanding and will he can decide for or against
love.
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 359) "In reality it is only in
the mystery of the Word made flesh that the mystery of man truly becomes
clear" (GS 22 § 1). St. Paul tells us that the human race takes its origin
from two men: Adam and Christ…. The first man, Adam, he says, became a living
soul, the last Adam a life-giving spirit. The first Adam was made by the last
Adam, from whom he also received his soul, to give him life... The second Adam
stamped his image on the first Adam when he created him. That is why he took on
himself the role and the name of the first Adam, in order that he might not
lose what he had made in his own image. The first Adam, the last Adam: the
first had a beginning, the last knows no end. The last Adam is indeed the
first; as he himself says: "I am the first and the last" (St. Peter
Chrysologus, Sermo 117: PL 52,
520-521).
(This question: Does man have a special place in creation? is continued)
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 56 - Part III.
YOUCAT Question n. 56 - Part III. Does man have a special place in creation?
(Youcat
answer - repeated) Yes. Man is the summit of creation, because God created him
in his image (Gen 1:27).
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 357)
Being in the image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of a person,
who is not just something, but someone. He is capable of self-knowledge, of
self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with
other persons. And he is called by grace to a covenant with his Creator, to
offer him a response of faith and love that no other creature can give in his
stead.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) The creation
of man is clearly distinguished from the creation of other living things. Man
is a person, which means that through his understanding and will he can decide
for or against love.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 356)
Of all visible creatures only man is "able to know and love his
creator" (GS 12 § 3). He is "the only creature on earth that God has
willed for its own sake" (GS 24 § 3), and he alone is called to share, by
knowledge and love, in God's own life. It was for this end that he was created,
and this is the fundamental reason for his dignity: What made you establish man
in so great a dignity? Certainly the incalculable love by which you have looked
on your creature in yourself! You are taken with love for her; for by love
indeed you created her, by love you have given her a being capable of tasting
your eternal Good (St. Catherine of Siena, Dialogue
4, 13 "On Divine Providence": LH,
Sunday, week 19, OR).
(This question: Does man have a special place in creation? is continued)
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 56 - Part II.
YOUCAT Question n. 56 - Part II. Does man have a special place in creation?
(Youcat answer - repeated) Yes. Man is
the summit of creation, because God created him in his image (Gen 1:27).
A
deepening through CCC
(CCC 355) "God created man in his own
image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created
them" (Gen 1:27). Man occupies a unique place in creation: he is "in
the image of God"; in his own nature he unites the spiritual and material
worlds; he is created "male and female"; God established him in his
friendship.
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment)
The creation of man is clearly
distinguished from the creation of other living things. Man is a person, which
means that through his understanding and will he can decide for or against
love.
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 358) God created everything for man
(Cf. GS 12 § 1; 24 § 3; 39 § 1), but man
in turn was created to serve and love God and to offer all creation back to
him: What is it that is about to be created, that enjoys such honor? It is man
that great and wonderful living creature, more precious in the eyes of God than
all other creatures! For him the heavens and the earth, the sea and all the
rest of creation exist. God attached so much importance to his salvation that
he did not spare his own Son for the sake of man. Nor does he ever cease to
work, trying every possible means, until he has raised man up to himself and
made him sit at his right hand (St. John Chrysostom, In Gen. sermo II, 1: PG 54, 587D-588A).
(This question: Does man have a special place in creation? is continued)
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