Friday, December 11, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 104.
(Youcat
answer) No. “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and
your faith is in vain” (1 Cor15:14).
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 631)
Jesus "descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who descended is he
who also ascended far above all the heavens" (Eph 4:9-10). The Apostles'
Creed confesses in the same article Christ's descent into hell and his
Resurrection from the dead on the third day, because in his Passover it was
precisely out of the depths of death that he made life spring forth: Christ,
that Morning Star, who came back from the dead, and shed his peaceful light on
all mankind, your Son who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen (Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 18, Exsultet). (CCC 651) "If Christ has
not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain"
(1 Cor 15:14). The Resurrection above all constitutes the confirmation of all
Christ's works and teachings. All truths, even those most inaccessible to human
reason, find their justification if Christ by his Resurrection has given the
definitive proof of his divine authority, which he had promised.
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 638)
"We bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this
day he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus" (Acts
13:32-33). The Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in
Christ, a faith believed and lived as the central truth by the first Christian
community; handed on as fundamental by Tradition; established by the documents
of the New Testament; and preached as an essential part of the Paschal mystery
along with the cross: Christ is risen from the dead! Dying, he conquered death;
To the dead, he has given life (Byzantine Liturgy, Troparion of Easter).
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