Saturday, February 13, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 122 - Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) God wills the Church because he wants to redeem us, not
individually, but together. He wants to make all mankind his people.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 760)
Christians of the first centuries said, "The world was created for the
sake of the Church" (Pastor Hermae,
Vision 2, 4, 1: PG 2, 899; cf. Aristides, Apol.
16, 6; St. Justin, Apol. 2, 7: PG 6,
456; Tertullian, Apol. 31, 3; 32, 1:
PL 1, 508-509). God created the world for the sake of communion with his divine
life, a communion brought about by the "convocation" of men in
Christ, and this "convocation" is the Church. The Church is the goal
of all things (Cf. St. Epiphanius, Panarion
1, 1, 5: PG 41, 181C), and God permitted such painful upheavals as the angels'
fall and man's sin only as occasions and means for displaying all the power of
his arm and the whole measure of the love he wanted to give the world: Just as
God's will is creation and is called "the world," so his intention is
the salvation of men, and it is called "the Church" (Clement of
Alex., Paed. 1, 6, 27: PG 8, 281).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
No one gets to heaven
by the asocial route. Someone who thinks only about himself and the salvation
of his own soul is living a-socially. That is impossible both in heaven and on
earth. God himself is not a-social; he is not a solitary, self-sufficient
being. The Triune God in himself is “social”, a communion, an eternal exchange
of love. Patterned after God, man also is designed for relationship, exchange,
sharing, and love. We are responsible for one another.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 780)
The Church in this world is the sacrament of salvation, the sign and the
instrument of the communion of God and men.
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