Thursday, February 18, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 122 - Part VII.
(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 769)
"The Church… will receive its perfection only in the glory of heaven"
(LG 48), at the time of Christ's glorious return. Until that day, "the
Church progresses on her pilgrimage amidst this world's persecutions and God's
consolations" (St. Augustine, De
civ. Dei, 18, 51: PL 41, 614; cf. LG 8). Here below she knows that she is
in exile far from the Lord, and longs for the full coming of the Kingdom, when
she will "be united in glory with her king" (LG 5; cf. 6; 2 Cor 5:6).
The Church, and through her the world, will not be perfected in glory without
great trials. Only then will "all the just from the time of Adam, 'from
Abel, the just one, to the last of the elect,'… be gathered together in the
universal Church in the Father's presence" (LG 2).
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 770)
The Church is in history, but at the same time she transcends it. It is only
"with the eyes of faith" (Roman
Catechism I, 10, 20) that one can see her in her visible reality and at the
same time in her spiritual reality as bearer of divine life.
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