10. There will be no further Revelation.

YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 10

AVE MARIA SERIES “ So that all may be one…” Jn 17:21

With Jesus Christ, has everything been said, or does revelation continue even after him?

In Jesus Christ, God himself came to earth.  He is God’s last Word.  By listening to him, all men of all times can know who God is and what is necessary for their salvation.

The Resurrection of Christ.  …..10

With the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the REVELATLION of God is perfect and complete.  To make it comprehensive to us, the Holy Spirit leads us ever deeper into the truth.  God’s light breaks so forcefully into the lives of many individuals that they “see the heavens opened” (Acts of the Apostles 7:56).  That is how the great places of pilgrimage such as Guadalupe in Mexico or Lourdes in France came about.  The “private revelations” of visionaries cannot improve on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  No one is obliged to believe in them.  But they can help us understand the Gospel better.  Their authenticity is tested by the Church.

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

 [CCC ¶66-67]

There will be no further Revelation

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."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.

28. Dei Verbum (dogmatic constitution) 4; compare 1 Tim 6:14; Titus 2:13.   

  

67 Throughout the ages, there have been so-called "private" revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ's definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church.

Christian faith cannot accept "revelations" that claim to surpass or correct the Revelation of which Christ is the fulfillment, as is the case in certain non-Christian religions and also in certain recent sects which base themselves on such "revelations".  

Illustration: JR  Resurrection of Christ