Monday, August 10, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC Question n. 62 Part III.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) The soul is what makes every individual person a man: his
spiritual life-principle and inmost being. The soul causes the material body to
be a living human body. Through his soul, man is a creature who can say “I” and
stand before God as an irreplaceable individual.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 154)
Believing is possible only by grace and the interior helps of the Holy Spirit.
But it is no less true that believing is an authentically human act. Trusting
in God and cleaving to the truths he has revealed are contrary neither to human
freedom nor to human reason. Even in human relations it is not contrary to our
dignity to believe what other persons tell us about themselves and their
intentions, or to trust their promises (for example, when a man and a woman
marry) to share a communion of life with one another. If this is so, still less
is it contrary to our dignity to "yield by faith the full submission of...
intellect and will to God who reveals" (Dei Filius: 3: DS 3008), and to share in an interior communion with
him.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Men are
bodily and spiritual creatures. A man’s spirit is more than a function of his
body and cannot be explained in terms of man’s material composition. Reason
tells us that there must be a spiritual principle that is united with the body
but not identical to it. We call it the “soul”. Although the soul’s existence
cannot be “proved” scientifically, man cannot be understood as a spiritual or
intellectual being without accepting this spiritual principle that transcends
matter.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 163)
Faith makes us taste in advance the light of the beatific vision, the goal of
our journey here below. Then we shall see God "face to face",
"as he is" (1 Cor 13:12; 1 Jn 3:2). So faith is already the beginning
of eternal life: When we contemplate the blessings of faith even now, as if
gazing at a reflection in a mirror, it is as if we already possessed the
wonderful things which our faith assures us we shall one day enjoy (St. Basil, De Spiritu Sancto, 15, 36: PG 32, 132;
cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 4,
1).
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