Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 274 - Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) Popular piety, which is expressed in veneration for relics,
processions, pilgrimages, and devotions, is an important way in which the faith
becomes inculturated. It is good as long as it is in and of the Church, leads
to Christ, and does not try to “earn” heaven by works, apart from God’s grace.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1676
b) This wisdom is a Christian humanism that radically affirms the dignity of
every person as a child of God, establishes a basic fraternity, teaches people
to encounter nature and understand work, provides reasons for joy and humor
even in the midst of a very hard life. For the people this wisdom is also a
principle of discernment and an evangelical instinct through which they
spontaneously sense when the Gospel is served in the Church and when it is
emptied of its content and stifled by other interests (CELAM, Third General
Conference (Puebla, 1979), Final Document § 448 (tr. NCCB, 1979); cf. Paul VI,
EN 48).
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1675)
These expressions of piety extend the liturgical life of the Church, but do not
replace it. They "should be so drawn up that they harmonize with the
liturgical seasons, accord with the sacred liturgy, are in some way derived
from it and lead the people to it, since in fact the liturgy by its very nature
is far superior to any of them" (SC 13 § 3).
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