Sunday, September 30, 2018
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 526 – Part II.
(Youcat
answer repeated) “Evil” in the Our Father does not mean a negative spiritual
force or energy, but rather Evil in person, whom Sacred Scripture knows by the
name of “the tempter”, “the father of lies”, Satan, or the devil.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 2851)
In this petition, evil is not an abstraction, but refers to a person, Satan,
the Evil One, the angel who opposes God. The devil (dia-bolos) is the one who "throws himself across" God's
plan and his work of salvation accomplished in Christ.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) No one can deny that evil in the world is
devastating in its power, that we are surrounded by devilish suggestions, that
there are often demonic processes at work in history. Only Sacred Scripture
calls things by their name: “For we are not contending against flesh and blood,
but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of
this present darkness” (Eph 6:12). The petition from the Our Father “deliver us
from evil” brings all the misery of this world before God and begs God Almighty
to free us from all evils.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 2852)
"A murderer from the beginning,… a liar and the father of lies,"
Satan is "the deceiver of the whole world" (Jn 8:44; Rev 12:9).
Through him sin and death entered the world and by his definitive defeat all
creation will be "freed from the corruption of sin and death" (Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer IV,
125). Now "we know that anyone born of God does not sin, but He who was
born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are
of God, and the whole world is in the power of the evil one" (1 Jn
5:18-19). The Lord who has taken away your sin and pardoned your faults also
protects you and keeps you from the wiles of your adversary the devil, so that
the enemy, who is accustomed to leading into sin, may not surprise you. One who
entrusts himself to God does not dread the devil. "If God is for us, who
is against us?" (St. Ambrose, De
Sacr. 5, 4, 30: PL 16, 454; cf. Rom 8:31).
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