God our savior desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Tim 2:3-4
The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to
communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to
man as soon as he comes into being. For if man exists, it is because
God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him
in existence. He cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely
acknowledges that love and entrusts himself to his creator. Vatican Council II, Gaudium et Spes, CCC Part One, Section One, Chapter One, I, 27
God...created man to share in his own blessed life.
For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He
calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls
together all men. CCC Prologue, I, 1
Those who responded to God’s call echoed God’s love out to
the nations by their life; They retold also the wondrous deeds God had done for
humankind to come together and be one with him in love. They retold all of the
truth and love that God had revealed to them about himself, about his creation
and about humankind.
What magnificent treasure did those God-answerers hand on?
What were the truths that moved them to love and moved them to spread the
faith?
They were are the core of our faith; They are the Creed.
God sent his Word of truth to us in Christ;
Christ echoed that truth to the apostles;
the Apostles echoed the truth on, in preaching and
writing, to the whole world;
we are called to echo the truth with our lives and with our words to all generations, until
Christ returns in glory. CCC Part One, Chapter 2, Article 2, III, 96
The Church, in her doctrine...transmits…all that she
herself is, all that she believes.
God was there in that handing on, in that sharing. Praise
God for his love. Praise God for the Creed. The Creed is our chance to hold
onto God’s love in memory and to live in his life every day.
So:
- How have you handed on faith to your mother? cousin? grandpa? friends?
- When in your life have you felt most alive and then spread your passion to someone else?
Pax ("Peace")
