Friday, August 14, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 64 Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) God, who is love and the archetype of community, created man
male and female so that together they might be an image of his nature.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 371)
God created man and woman together
and willed each for the other. The
Word of God gives us to understand this through various features of the sacred
text. "It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a
helper fit for him" (Gen 2:18). None of the animals can be man's partner
(Gen 2:19-20). The woman God "fashions" from the man's rib and brings
to him elicits on the man's part a cry of wonder, an exclamation of love and
communion: "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh" (Gen 2:23). Man discovers
woman as another "I", sharing the same humanity.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) God made man
in such a way that he is male or female and longs for fulfillment and
completion in an encounter with the opposite sex. Men and women have absolutely
the same dignity, but in the creative development of their masculinity and
femininity they give expression to different aspects of God’s perfection. God
is not male or female, but he has shown himself to be both fatherly (Lk 6:36)
and motherly (Is 66:13). In the love of man and woman, especially in the
community of marriage, in which man and woman become “one flesh” (Gen 2:24),
people are privileged to sense something of the happiness of the union with God
in which every man finds his ultimate wholeness. Just as God’s love is
faithful, so also their love seeks to be faithful; and it is creative, as God
is, because from marriage new life comes forth.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 372)
Man and woman were made "for each other" - not that God left them
half-made and incomplete: he created them to be a communion of persons, in
which each can be "helpmate" to the other, for they are equal as
persons ("bone of my bones…") and complementary as masculine and
feminine. In marriage God unites them in such a way that, by forming "one
flesh" (Gen 2:24), they can transmit human life: "Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth" (Gen 1:28). By transmitting human life to
their descendants, man and woman as spouses and parents cooperate in a unique
way in the Creator's work (Cf. GS 50 § 1).
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