527 AMEN "YES, SO BE IT!"

AVE MARIA

YOUCAT Lesson 527

YOUCAT the catechism for Catholic youth

527  Why do we end the Our Father with “Amen”?

Christians and Jews alike from ancient times have concluded all their prayers with “Amen”, thereby saying, “Yes, so be it!”  [2855-2856, 2865]

This the procession statue of Our Lady of Good Help that is kept at the National Champion Shrine 16 miles northeast of Green Bay on County Highway K.  –Don L. Bragg photo

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.  165

Embolism (from Greek, emballein = insert): a clause added to the Our Father when it is recited at Mass: Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

“The Amen of our faith is not death, but life.”  Michael Cardinal Faulhaber (1869-1952)

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THE FINAL DOXOLOGY

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.( Comparre Revelation 1:6; Rev 4:11; Rev 5:13.)¹⁷⁶ The ruler of this world has mendaciously attributed to himself the three titles of kingship, power, and glory.( Compare Luke 4:5-6.)¹⁷⁷ 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 Corinthians 15:24-28.)¹⁷⁸ –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition

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:Patrologia Graeca 33,1124; compare Luke 1:38.)¹⁷⁹ –CCC

Roadmap of the Catholic Faith online catechism lessons will resume anew on February 21, 2018 (my 88^th birthday!).

LESSON 527 brings us to the end of the YOUCAT catechism booklet. In this most recent online class instruction we have now merged YOUCAT and the related numbered paragraphs of the CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.  We also have spelled out the paragraph footnotes for the related Bible book, chapter and verse, yet keeping their CCC footnote numbers. Going further, for those who follow these lessons at our blog   http://roadmapofthecatholicfaith.blogspot.com/   we have hyperlinked the CCC paragraph references which will allow you to instantly skip back and forth between CCC and the exact cited verse in the Bible on the home page of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. 

We will see you back at this same location on February 21, 2018 and, as the Benedictines would say, “Pray for each other.”