Monday, September 18, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 342 – Part II.
(Youcat answer - repeated) Yes. The
purpose of our life is to be united with God in love and to correspond entirely
to God’s wishes. We should allow God “to live his life in us” (Mother Teresa).
That is what it means to be holy: a “saint”.
A
deepening through CCC
(CCC 2014) Spiritual progress tends toward
ever more intimate union with Christ. This union is called "mystical"
because it participates in the mystery of Christ through the sacraments -
"the holy mysteries" - and, in him, in the mystery of the Holy
Trinity. God calls us all to this intimate union with him, even if the special
graces or extraordinary signs of this mystical life are granted only to some
for the sake of manifesting the gratuitous gift given to all.
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment) Every man
asks himself the question: Who am I and why am I here, how do I find myself?
Faith answers: Only in holiness does man become that for which God created him.
Only in holiness does man find real harmony between himself and his Creator.
Holiness, however, is not some sort of self-made perfection; rather, it is
union with the incarnate love that is Christ. Anyone who gains new life in this
way finds himself and becomes holy.
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 2015) The way of perfection passes by
way of the Cross. There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual
battle (Cf. 2 Tim 4). Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification
that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the Beatitudes: He who
climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that
have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows (St. Gregory of
Nyssa, Hom. in Cant. 8: PG 44, 941C).
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