Saturday, April 9, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 133 - Part III.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) “Catholic” (Greek kat’ holon) means related to the whole.
The Church is catholic because Christ called her to profess the whole faith, to
preserve all the sacraments, to administer them and proclaim the Good News to
all; and he sent her to all nations.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 851) Missionary
motivation. It is from God's love for all men that the Church in every age
receives both the obligation and the vigor of her missionary dynamism,
"for the love of Christ urges us on" (2 Cor 5:14; cf. AA 6; RMiss 11). Indeed, God "desires all
men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim 2:4);
that is, God wills the salvation of everyone through the knowledge of the
truth. Salvation is found in the truth. Those who obey the prompting of the
Spirit of truth are already on the way of salvation. But the Church, to whom this
truth has been entrusted, must go out to meet their desire, so as to bring them
the truth. Because she believes in God's universal plan of salvation, the
Church must be missionary.
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 852) Missionary paths.
The Holy Spirit is the protagonist, "the principal agent of the whole of
the Church's mission" (John Paul II, RMiss
21). It is he who leads the Church on her missionary paths. "This mission
continues and, in the course of history, unfolds the mission of Christ, who was
sent to evangelize the poor; so the Church, urged on by the Spirit of Christ,
must walk the road Christ himself walked, a way of poverty and obedience, of
service and self-sacrifice even to death, a death from which he emerged
victorious by his resurrection" (AG 5). So it is that "the blood of
martyrs is the seed of Christians" (Tertullian, Apol. 50, 13: PL 1, 603).
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