Monday, February 8, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 121 - Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) The Greek word for Church is “ekklesia” those who are called
forth. All of us who are baptized and believe in God are called forth by the
Lord. Together we are the Church. Christ is, as Paul says, the Head of the
Church. We are his body.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 750)
To believe that the Church is "holy" and "catholic," and
that she is "one" and "apostolic" (as the Nicene Creed
adds), is inseparable from belief in God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Spirit. In the Apostles' Creed we profess "one Holy Church" (Credo… Ecclesiam), and not to believe in the Church, so as not to confuse God
with his works and to attribute clearly to God's goodness all the gifts he has bestowed on his Church (Roman Catechism I, 10, 22).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
When we receive the
sacraments and hear God’s Word, Christ is in us and we are in him—that is the Church. The
intimate communion of life with Jesus that is shared personally by all the
baptized is described in Sacred Scripture by a wealth of images: Here it speaks
about the People of God and in another passage about the Bride of Christ; now
the Church is called Mother, and again she is God’s family, or she is compared
with a wedding feast. Never is the Church a mere institution, never just the
“official Church” that we could do without. We will be upset by the mistakes
and defects in the Church, but we can
never distance ourselves from her, because God has made an irrevocable decision
to love her and does not forsake her despite all the sins of her members. The
Church is God’s presence among us men. That is why we must love her.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 751)
The word "Church" (Latin ecclesia,
from the Greek ek-ka-lein, to
"call out of") means a convocation or an assembly. It designates the
assemblies of the people, usually for a religious purpose (Cf. Acts 19:39). Ekklesia is used frequently in the Greek
Old Testament for the assembly of the Chosen People before God, above all for
their assembly on Mount Sinai where Israel received the Law and was established
by God as his holy people (Cf. Ex 19). By calling itself "Church,"
the first community of Christian believers recognized itself as heir to that
assembly. In the Church, God is "calling together" his people from
all the ends of the earth. The equivalent Greek term Kyriake, from which the English word Church and the German Kirche
are derived, means "what belongs to the Lord."
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