Sunday, July 9, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 312.
(Youcat answer) A person knows that he has sinned through his
conscience, which accuses him and motivates him to confess his offenses to God.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1797) For the man who has committed evil, the verdict of
his conscience remains a pledge of conversion and of hope.
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 1848) As St.
Paul affirms, "Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more" (Rom
5:20). But to do its work grace must uncover sin so as to convert our hearts
and bestow on us "righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord" (Rom 5:21). Like a physician who probes the wound before treating
it, God, by his Word and by his Spirit, casts a living light on sin: Conversion
requires convincing of sin; it
includes the interior judgment of conscience, and this, being a proof of the
action of the Spirit of truth in man's inmost being, becomes at the same time
the start of a new grant of grace and love: "Receive the Holy
Spirit." Thus in this "convincing concerning sin" we discover a double gift: the gift of the truth of
conscience and the gift of the certainty of redemption. The Spirit of truth is
the Consoler (John Paul II, Dominum et
Vivificantem, 31 § 2).
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