Friday, October 2, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 76 - Part V.
(Youcat
answer - Repeated) “For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven”
(Nicene Creed).
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 229)
Faith in God leads us to turn to him alone as our first origin and our ultimate
goal, and neither to prefer anything to him nor to substitute anything for him.
(CCC 224) It means living in thanksgiving:
if God is the only One, everything we are and have comes from him: "What
have you that you did not receive?" (1 Cor 4:7). "What shall I render
to the LORD for all his bounty to me?" (Ps 116:12).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) In Jesus
Christ, God reconciled the world to himself and redeemed mankind from the
imprisonment of sin. “God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten
Son” (Jn 3:16). In Jesus, God took on our mortal human flesh (incarnation),
shared our earthly lot, our sufferings, and our death, and became one like us
in all things but sin.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 227) It means trusting God in every circumstance,
even in adversity. A prayer of St. Teresa of Jesus wonderfully expresses this
trust: Let nothing trouble you / Let nothing frighten you Everything passes /
God never changes Patience / Obtains all Whoever has God / Wants for nothing
God alone is enough (St. Teresa of Jesus, Poesias
30 in The Collected Works of St. Teresa
of Avila, vol. III, tr. K. Kavanaugh OCD and O. Rodriguez OCD (Washington
DC Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1985), 386 no. 9. tr. John Wall).
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