Sunday, August 16, 2015
YOUCAT commented through CCC. Question n. 64 Part IV.
(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 237) The Trinity is a mystery of faith
in the strict sense, one of the "mysteries that are hidden in God, which
can never be known unless they are revealed by God" (Dei Filius 4: DS 3015). To be sure, God has left traces of his
Trinitarian being in his work of creation and in his Revelation throughout the
Old Testament. But his inmost Being as Holy Trinity is a mystery that is
inaccessible to reason alone or even to Israel's faith before the Incarnation
of God's Son and the sending of the Holy Spirit.
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 383) "God did not create man a
solitary being. From the beginning, "male and female he created them"
(Gen 1:27). This partnership of man and woman constitutes the first form of communion
between persons" (GS 12 § 4). 383
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