YOUCAT Question n. 71 - Part
I. Why are the reports about Jesus called “the Gospel”, “the Good News”?
(Youcat
answer) Without the Gospels we would not know that God sends his Son to us men
out of his infinite love, so that despite our sins we might find our way back
to eternal fellowship with God.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 422)
“But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman,
born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might
receive adoption as sons” (Gal 4:4-5). This is “the gospel of Jesus Christ, the
Son of God” (Mk 1:1): God has visited his people. He has fulfilled the promise
he made to Abraham and his descendants. He acted far beyond all expectation -
he has sent his own “beloved Son” (Mk 1:11; cf. Lk 1:5, 68).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) The reports
about the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus are the best news in the
world. They testify that the Jew who was born in Bethlehem, Jesus of Nazareth,
is “Son of the living God” (Mt 16:16) made man. He was sent by the Father so
that “all men might be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth” (cf. 1 Tim
2:4).
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 423)
We believe and confess that Jesus of Nazareth, born a Jew of a daughter of
Israel at Bethlehem at the time of King Herod the Great and the emperor Caesar
Augustus, a carpenter by trade, who died crucified in Jerusalem under the
procurator Pontius Pilate during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, is the
eternal Son of God made man. He “came from God,” (Jn 13:3) “descended from
heaven” (Jn 3:13; 6:33), and “came in
the flesh.” (1 Jn 4:2). For “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of
grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the
Father…. And from his fullness have we all received, grace upon grace.” (Jn
1:14,16).
(This question: Why are
the reports about Jesus called “the Gospel”, “the Good News”? is continued)
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