Sunday, June 24, 2018
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 489 – Part I.
(Youcat
answer) God needs no applause. But we need to express spontaneously our delight
in God and the rejoicing in our hearts. We praise God because he exists and
because he is good. We thereby join even now in the eternal praise of the
angels and saints in heaven.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 2639)
Praise is the form of prayer which recognizes most immediately that God is God.
It lauds God for his own sake and gives him glory, quite beyond what he does,
but simply because HE IS. It shares in the blessed happiness of the pure of
heart who love God in faith before seeing him in glory. By praise, the Spirit
is joined to our spirits to bear witness that we are children of God (Cf. Rom
8:16), testifying to the only Son in whom we are adopted and by whom we glorify
the Father. Praise embraces the other forms of prayer and carries them toward
him who is its source and goal: the "one God, the Father, from whom are
all things and for whom we exist" (1 Cor 8:6).
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 2641)
"[Address] one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
and making melody to the Lord with all your heart" (Eph 5:19; Col 3:16).
Like the inspired writers of the New Testament, the first Christian communities
read the Book of Psalms in a new way, singing in it the mystery of Christ. In
the newness of the Spirit, they also composed hymns and canticles in the light
of the unheard-of event that God accomplished in his Son: his Incarnation, his
death which conquered death, his Resurrection, and Ascension to the right hand
of the Father (Cf. Phil 2:6-11; Col 1:15-20; Eph 5:14; 1 Tim 3:16; 6:15-16; 2
Tim 2:11-13). Doxology, the praise of God, arises from this "marvelous
work" of the whole economy of salvation (Cf. Eph 1:3-14; Rom 16:25-27; Eph
3:20-21; Jude 24-25).
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