Friday, July 10, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 49 – Part II.
(Youcat answer - repeated) Yes, but in a mysterious way;
God guides everything along paths that only he knows, leading it to its
perfection. At no point in time does something that he has created fall out of
his hands.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 304) And so we see the Holy Spirit, the principal
author of Sacred Scripture, often attributing actions to God without mentioning
any secondary causes. This is not a "primitive mode of speech", but a
profound way of recalling God's primacy and absolute Lordship over history and
the world (Cf. Isa 10:5-15; 45:51; Dt 32:39; Sir 11:14), and so of educating
his people to trust in him. The prayer of the Psalms is the great school of
this trust (Cf. Pss 22; 32; 35; 103; 138; et
al.). (CCC 43) Admittedly, in speaking about God like this, our language is
using human modes of expression; nevertheless it really does attain to God
himself, though unable to express him in his infinite simplicity. Likewise, we
must recall that "between Creator and creature no similitude can be
expressed without implying an even greater dissimilitude" (Lateran Council
IV: DS 806); and that "concerning God, we cannot grasp what he is, but
only what he is not, and how other beings stand in relation to him" (St.
Thomas Aquinas, SCG I, 30).
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment)
God influences both the great events of
history and also the little events of our personal life, without reducing our
freedom or making us mere marionettes in his eternal plans. In God “we live and
move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). God is in everything we meet in all the
changes in our life, even in the painful events and the seemingly meaningless
coincidences. God wants to write straight even with the crooked lines of our
life. What he takes away from us and what he gives us, the ways in which he
strengthens us and the ways in which he tests us—all these are rrangements and signs of his will.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 305) Jesus asks for childlike abandonment to the
providence of our heavenly Father who takes care of his children's smallest
needs: "Therefore do not be anxious, saying, "What shall we
eat?" or "What shall we drink?"… Your heavenly Father knows that
you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all
these things shall be yours as well" (Mt 6:31-33; cf. 10:29-31). 305
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