Friday, February 19, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 122 - Part VIII.
(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 771 a)
"The one mediator, Christ, established and ever sustains here on earth his
holy Church, the community of faith, hope, and charity, as a visible
organization through which he communicates truth and grace to all men" (LG 8 § 1). The Church is at the same time: -
a "society structured with hierarchical organs and the mystical body of
Christ; - the visible society and the spiritual community; - the earthly Church
and the Church endowed with heavenly riches" (LG 8). These dimensions together
constitute "one complex reality which comes together from a human and a
divine element" (LG 8):
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 771 b)
The Church is essentially both human and divine, visible but endowed with
invisible realities, zealous in action and dedicated to contemplation, present
in the world, but as a pilgrim, so constituted that in her the human is
directed toward and subordinated to the divine, the visible to the invisible,
action to contemplation, and this present world to that city yet to come, the
object of our quest (SC 2, Cf. Heb 13:14). O humility! O sublimity! Both
tabernacle of cedar and sanctuary of God; earthly dwelling and celestial
palace; house of clay and royal hall; body of death and temple of light; and at
last both object of scorn to the proud and bride of Christ! She is black but
beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, for even if the labor and pain of her long
exile may have discolored her, yet heaven's beauty has adorned her (St. Bernard
of Clairvaux, In Cant. Sermo 27:14 PL
183:920D).
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