Saturday, February 27, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 123 - Part III.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) The church’s task is to make the kingdom of God, which has
already begun with Jesus, germinate and grow in all nations.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 767)
"When the work which the Father gave the Son to do on earth was
accomplished, the Holy Spirit was sent on the day of Pentecost in order that he
might continually sanctify the Church" (LG 4; Cf. Jn 17:4). Then "the
Church was openly displayed to the crowds and the spread of the Gospel among
the nations, through preaching, was begun" (AG 4). As the
"convocation" of all men for salvation, the Church in her very nature
is missionary, sent by Christ to all the nations to make disciples of them (Cf.
Mt 28:19-20; AG 2; 5-6).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
Wherever Jesus went,
heaven touched earth: the kingdom of God was inaugurated, a kingdom of peace
and justice. The Church serves this kingdom of God. She is not an end in
herself. She must carry on what Jesus started. She should act as Jesus would
act. She continues the sacred signs of Jesus (the sacraments). She hands on
Jesus’ words. That is why the Church, for all her weakness, is a formidable bit
of heaven on earth.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 768)
So that she can fulfill her mission, the Holy Spirit "bestows upon [the
Church] varied hierarchic and charismatic gifts, and in this way directs
her" (LG 4). "Henceforward the Church, endowed with the gifts of her
founder and faithfully observing his precepts of charity, humility and
self-denial, receives the mission of proclaiming and establishing among all
peoples the Kingdom of Christ and of God, and she is on earth the seed and the
beginning of that kingdom" (LG 5).
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