Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 155 – Part I.
(Youcat
answer) Christ comes to meet us and leads us into eternal life. “Not death, but
God will take me” (St. Thérèse of Lisieux).
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1005)
To rise with Christ, we must die with Christ: we must "be away from the
body and at home with the Lord" (2 Cor 5:8). In that "departure"
which is death the soul is separated from the body (Cf. Phil 1:23). It will be
reunited with the body on the day of resurrection of the dead (Cf. Paul VI, CPG
§ 28). (CCC 1006) "It is in regard to death that man's condition is most
shrouded in doubt" (GS 18). In a
sense bodily death is natural, but for faith it is in fact "the wages of
sin" (Rom 6:23; cf. Gen 2:17). For those who die in Christ's grace it is a
participation in the death of the Lord, so that they can also share his
Resurrection (Cf. Rom 6:3-9; Phil 3:10-11). (CCC 1007) Death is the end of earthly life. Our lives are measured by time,
in the course of which we change, grow old and, as with all living beings on
earth, death seems like the normal end of life. That aspect of death lends
urgency to our lives: remembering our mortality helps us realize that we have
only a limited time in which to bring our lives to fulfillment: Remember also
your Creator in the days of your youth,… before the dust returns to the earth
as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it (Eccl 12:1, 7).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
In view of Jesus’
suffering and death, death itself can become easier. In an act of trust and
love for the Father, we can say Yes, as Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Such an attitude is called “spiritual sacrifice”: the dying person unites
himself with Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross. Someone who dies this way,
trusting in God and at peace with men, and thus without serious sin, is on the
way to communion with the risen Christ. Our dying makes us fall no farther than
into his hands. A person who dies does not travel to nowhere but rather goes
home into the love of God, who created him.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1008) Death is a consequence of sin. The
Church's Magisterium, as authentic interpreter of the affirmations of Scripture
and Tradition, teaches that death entered the world on account of man's sin
(Cf. Gen 2:17; 3:3; 3:19; Wis 1:13; Rom 5:12; 6:23; DS 1511). Even though man's
nature is mortal God had destined him not to die. Death was therefore contrary
to the plans of God the Creator and entered the world as a consequence of sin
(Cf. Wis 2:23-24). "Bodily death, from which man would have been immune
had he not sinned" is thus "the last enemy" of man left to be
conquered (GS 18 § 2; cf. 1 Cor 15:26)
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