Saturday, June 25, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 153 – Part III.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) In Jesus Christ, God himself took on “flesh” (Incarnation)
in order to redeem mankind. The biblical word “flesh” characterizes man in his
weakness and mortality. Nevertheless, God does not regard human flesh as
something inferior. God does not redeem man’s spirit only; he redeems him
entirely, body and soul.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 998) Who will rise? All the dead will rise,
"those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have
done evil, to the resurrection of judgment" (Jn 5:29; cf. Dan 12:2). (CCC
999) How? Christ is raised with his
own body: "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself" (Lk 24:39);
but he did not return to an earthly life. So, in him, "all of them will
rise again with their own bodies which they now bear," but Christ
"will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body," into a
"spiritual body" (Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 801; Phil 3:21; 2 Cor
15:44): But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of
body do they come?" You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life
unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare
kernel…. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable…. The dead
will be raised imperishable… For this perishable nature must put on the
imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality (1 Cor 15:35-37,
42, 52, 53).(CCC 1001) When?
Definitively "at the last day," "at the end of the world"
(Jn 6: 39-40, 44, 54; 11:24; LG 48 § 3). Indeed, the resurrection of the dead
is closely associated with Christ's Parousia: For the Lord himself will descend
from heaven, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the
sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first (1 Thess
4:16).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
God created us with a
body (flesh) and a soul. At the end of the world he does not drop the “flesh”
like an old toy. On the “Last Day” he will remake all creation and raise us up
in the flesh—this
means that we will be transformed but still experience ourselves in our
element. For Jesus, too, being in the flesh was not just a phase. When the
risen Lord showed himself, the disciples saw the wounds on his body.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1015)
"The flesh is the hinge of salvation" (Tertullian, De res. 8, 2: PL 2, 852). We believe in
God who is creator of the flesh; we believe in the Word made flesh in order to
redeem the flesh; we believe in the resurrection of the flesh, the fulfillment
of both the creation and the redemption of the flesh.
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