YOUCAT Question n. 145 - Part XII. Why does Jesus want there to be Christians who live their whole lives in poverty, unmarried chastity, and obedience?
(Youcat
answer - repeated) God is love. He longs for our love also. One form of loving
surrender to God is to live as Jesus did — poor, chaste, and obedient. Someone
who lives in this way has head, heart, and hands free for God and
neighbor.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 948)
The term "communion of saints" therefore has two closely linked
meanings: communion in holy things (sancta)"
and "among holy persons (sancti).
"Sancta sancti's! ("God's
holy gifts for God's holy people") is proclaimed by the celebrant in most
Eastern liturgies during the elevation of the holy Gifts before the
distribution of communion. The faithful (sancti)
are fed by Christ's holy body and blood (sancta)
to grow in the communion of the Holy Spirit (koinonia) and to communicate it to the world.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
In every age individual
Christians let themselves be completely taken over by Jesus, so that “for the
sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 19:12) they give everything away for God—even such wonderful gifts as
their own property, self-determination, and married love. This life according
to the evangelical counsels in poverty, chastity, and obedience shows all
Christians that the world is not everything. Only an encounter with the divine
Bridegroom “face to face” will ultimately make a person happy.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 949)
In the primitive community of Jerusalem, the disciples "devoted themselves
to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and the
prayers" (Acts 2:42). Communion in
the faith. The faith of the faithful is the faith of the Church, received
from the apostles. Faith is a treasure of life which is enriched by being
shared.
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