Monday, June 20, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 151 – Part V.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) Fundamentally the forgiveness of sins occurs in the
sacrament of Baptism. After that the sacrament of Reconciliation (Penance,
confession) is necessary for the forgiveness of serious sins. For less serious
sins, confession is recommended. But reading Sacred Scripture, prayer, fasting,
and the performance of good works also have the effect of forgiving sins.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 235)
This paragraph expounds briefly (I) how the mystery of the Blessed Trinity was
revealed, (II) how the Church has articulated the doctrine of the faith
regarding this mystery, and (III) how, by the divine missions of the Son and
the Holy Spirit, God the Father fulfils the "plan of his loving
goodness" of creation, redemption and sanctification. (CCC 236) The
Fathers of the Church distinguish between theology (theologia) and economy (oikonomia).
"Theology" refers to the mystery of God's inmost life within the
Blessed Trinity and "economy" to all the works by which God reveals
himself and communicates his life. Through the oikonomia the theologia
is revealed to us; but conversely, the theologia
illuminates the whole oikonomia.
God's works reveal who he is in himself; the mystery of his inmost being
enlightens our understanding of all his works. So it is, analogously, among
human persons. A person discloses himself in his actions, and the better we
know a person, the better we understand his actions.
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 237)
The Trinity is a mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the
"mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they
are revealed by God" (Dei Filius
4: DS 3015). To be sure, God has left traces of his Trinitarian being in his
work of creation and in his Revelation throughout the Old Testament. But his
inmost Being as Holy Trinity is a mystery that is inaccessible to reason alone
or even to Israel's faith before the Incarnation of God's Son and the sending
of the Holy Spirit.
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