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Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 9
AVE MARIA Series
9. What does God show about himself when he
sends his Son to us?
God shows us in Jesus Christ the full depth of his merciful
love. [65-66, 73]
The Sermon on the Mount. Jesus addressing his disciples. .....9
Through Jesus Christ the invisible God becomes visible. He becomes a man like us. This shows how far God’s love goes: He bears our whole burden. He walks every path with us. He is there in our abandonment, our
sufferings, our fear of death. He is there
when we can go no further, so as to open to us the door leading to life. 314
In Jesus Christ God took on a human face and became our
friend and brother. Pope Benedict XVI
September 6, 2006
INCARNATION (from the
Latin caro, carnis=flesh, “becoming flesh”):
God’s act of becoming man in Jesus Christ. This is the foundation of Christian faith and
hope for the redemption of mankind.
God has said everything in his Word
65 "In many and various ways God spoke of
old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us
by a Son (Hebrews 1:1-2.)."26 Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father's one,
perfect and unsurpassable Word. In him he has said everything; there will be no
other word than this one. St. John of the Cross, among others, commented
strikingly on Hebrews 1:1-2 in the commentary below:
In giving us his
Son, his only Word (for he possesses no other), he spoke everything to us at
once in this sole Word - and he has no more to say. . . because what
he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken all at once by
giving us the All Who is His Son. Any person questioning God or desiring some
vision or revelation would be guilty not only of foolish behavior but also of
offending him, by not fixing his eyes entirely upon Christ and by living with
the desire for some other novelty .(St. John of the Cross, The Ascent of Mount Carmel 2,22,3-5 in The Collected Works of St. John of
the Cross, tr. K. Kavanaugh, OCD, and O. Rodriguez, OCD (Washington
DC:Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1979),179-180:LH, OR Advent, week 2,
Mon.)27 --Catechism of the
Catholic Church, Second Edition
66 "The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the
new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation
is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Dei Verbum 4;
compare 1 Timothy 6:14; Titus 2:13.)"28 Yet even if Revelation is already complete,
it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith
gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries. –CCC
IN
BRIEF
73 God has revealed himself fully by sending his own Son, in
whom he has established his covenant for ever. The Son is his Father's
definitive Word; so there will be no further Revelation after him.
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