Announcement to all Visitors

Dear Visitors and Readers,

We have completed the commentary to “Youcat English: Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church” through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church. With this commentary we come to the end of the commentaries posted on this blog since 2007. You can always find them on this blog.

They are the following:

 “New Testament” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

“Old Testament” (chosen Pages) commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

 “Compendium of the Cathechism of the Catholic Church” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

The four Gospels commented through the “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church” and Encyclical Letter Caritas In Veritate.

Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: “Gaudium et Spes” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: “Lumen Gentium” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation: “Dei Verbum” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

“Youcat English: Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

We thank You for your attention and we wish you a useful and pleasant reading. God bless You.

 

Gualberto Gismondi ofm.

Announcement to all Visitors and Readers

Announcement to all Visitors and Readers

The commentary to the “Youcat English: Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church” through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church has been completed.

Dear Visitors and Readers,

We have completed the commentaries of the “Cathechism of the Catholic Church” to “Youcat English: Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church” and to all the other documents of the Catholic Church posted on this blog since 2007. You can always find them on this blog. They are the following:

 “New Testament” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

“Old Testament” (chosen Pages) commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

“Compendium of the Cathechism of the Catholic Church” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

The four Gospels commented through the “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church” and Encyclical Letter "Caritas In Veritate".

Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: “Gaudium et Spes” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: “Lumen Gentium” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation: “Dei Verbum” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

“Youcat English: Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

We thank You for your kind attention and we wish you always an useful and pleasant reading. God bless You.

Gualberto Gismondi ofm.

Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 527.

YOUCAT Question n. 527 - Why do we end the Our Father with “Amen”?

(Youcat answer) Christians and Jews alike from ancient times have concluded all their prayers with “Amen”, thereby saying, “Yes, so be it!”

A deepening through CCC

(CCC 2855) The final doxology, "For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and forever," takes up again, by inclusion, the first three petitions to our Father: the glorification of his name, the coming of his reign, and the power of his saving will. But these prayers are now proclaimed as adoration and thanksgiving, as in the liturgy of heaven (Cf. Rev 1:6; 4:11; 5:13). The ruler of this world has mendaciously attributed to himself the three titles of kingship, power, and glory (Cf. Lk 4:5-6). Christ, the Lord, restores them to his Father and our Father, until he hands over the kingdom to him when the mystery of salvation will be brought to its completion and God will be all in all (1 Cor 15:24-28). 

Reflecting and meditating 

(Youcat comment) When a person says “Amen” to his words, “Amen” to his life and his destiny, “Amen” to the joy that awaits him, then heaven and earth come together and we are at the goal: with the love that created us in the beginning. 

(CCC Comment)

(CCC 2865) By the final "Amen," we express our "fiat" concerning the seven petitions: "So be it". (CCC 2856) "Then, after the prayer is over you say 'Amen,' which means 'So be it,' thus ratifying with our 'Amen' what is contained in the prayer that God has taught us" (St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 5,18: PG 33, 1124; cf. Lk 1:38).

This is the last of the commentaries to the “Youcat English: Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church” through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church

Dear Visitors and Readers,

We have completed the commentary to “Youcat English: Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church” through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church. With this commentary we come to the end of the commentaries posted on this blog since 2007. You can always find them on this blog.

They are the following:

 “New Testament” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

“Old Testament” (chosen Pages) commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

“Compendium of the Cathechism of the Catholic Church” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

The four Gospels commented through the “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church” and Encyclical Letter "Caritas In Veritate".

Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: “Gaudium et Spes” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: “Lumen Gentium” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation: “Dei Verbum” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

“Youcat English: Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church” commented through the Cathechism of the Catholic Church.

We thank You for your attention and we wish you a useful and pleasant reading. God bless You.

 

Gualberto Gismondi ofm.

Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 526 – Part IV.

YOUCAT Question n. 526 - Part IV. What does it mean to say, “Deliver us from evil”?

(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 2864) In the last petition, "but deliver us from evil," Christians pray to God with the Church to show forth the victory, already won by Christ, over the "ruler of this world," Satan, the angel personally opposed to God and to his plan of salvation.      

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 2854) When we ask to be delivered from the Evil One, we pray as well to be freed from all evils, present, past, and future, of which he is the author or instigator. In this final petition, the Church brings before the Father all the distress of the world. Along with deliverance from the evils that overwhelm humanity, she implores the precious gift of peace and the grace of perseverance in expectation of Christ's return. By praying in this way, she anticipates in humility of faith the gathering together of everyone and everything in him who has "the keys of Death and Hades," who "is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty" (Rev 1:8, 18; cf. Rev 1:4; Eph 1:10). Deliver us, Lord, we beseech you, from every evil and grant us peace in our day, so that aided by your mercy we might be ever free from sin and protected from all anxiety, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. (Roman Missal, Embolism after the Lord's Prayer, 126: Libera nos, quaesumus, Domine, ab omnibus malis, da propitius pacem in diebus nostris, ut, ope misericordiae tuae adiuti, et a peccato simus semper liberi, et ab omni perturbatione securi: expectantes beatam spem et adventum Salvatoris nostri Iesu Christi).

(The next question is: Why do we end the Our Father with “Amen”?)