We continue our quest for knowledge of the Catechism of the Catholic Church last week, we read Section 4 "The Creator". Today we continue our meeting with Paragraph 5:
Paragraph 5 HEAVEN AND EARTH
325 The Apostles' Creed professes that God is the Creator of heaven and earth, "and the Nicene Creed to express". . . of all things visible and invisible. "
326 In Sacred Scripture, the term "heaven and earth" means all that exists, the whole creation. It also indicates, in the creation, at the same time the bond that unites and distinguishes between heaven and earth: "The earth is the world of men [Cf ⇒ Ps 115.16]. "Heaven", or "heaven", may indicate the firmament, [Cf ⇒ Ps 19.2], but also the "place" just in God our Father in heaven "(⇒ Mt 5:16) [cf ⇒ Ps 115.16] and, consequently, also "heaven" which is eschatological glory. Finally, the word "heaven" means "place" of spiritual beings - angels - God surrounding
327 The profession of faith of the Fourth Lateran Council declares that God "from the beginning of time, created from nothing the one and the other order of creatures, the spiritual and the material, ie, the angels and the earthly world, and then the man, as participant both, composed of soul and body "[Fourth Lateran Council, DS. -Schönm., 800, cf Vatican Council: ibid., 3002 and Paul VI, Credo of the People of God, 8].
I. Angels
The existence of angels - a truth of faith
328 The existence of spiritual beings, disembodied, that Sacred Scripture usually calls' angels is a truth of faith. The testimony of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition.
Chi sono?
329 Sant'Agostino dice a loro riguardo: “Angelus officii nomen est, non naturae. Quaeris nomen huius naturae, spiritus est; quaeris officium, angelus est: ex eo quod est, spiritus est, ex eo quod agit, angelus - La parola angelo designa l'ufficio, non la natura. Se si chiede il nome di questa natura si risponde che è spirito; se si chiede l'ufficio, si risponde che è angelo: è spirito per quello che è, mentre per quello che compie è angelo” [Sant'Agostino, Enarratio in Psalmos, 103, 1, 15]. In tutto il loro essere, gli angeli sono servitori e messaggeri di Dio. Per il fatto che “vedono sempre la faccia the Father. . . which is in heaven "(⇒ Mt 18:10), they are" mighty ones who do his commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word "(⇒ Ps 103.20).
330 As purely spiritual creatures, they have intelligence and will: they are personal creatures [Cf Pius XII, Encyclical Letter. Humani generis: DS. -Schönm., 3891] and immortal [Cf ⇒ Lk 20:36]. Exceeded in perfection all visible creatures. Witness the splendor of their glory [cf ⇒ Dn 10.9 to 12].
Christ "with all his angels"
331 Christ is the center of the angelic world. They are "his angels": "When the Son of Man comes in his glory with all his angels. . . "(⇒ Mt 25:31). They belong to him because we are created through him and for him: "For by Him were all things created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through him and for him "(⇒ Col 1:16). I am even more because its made them messengers of his saving plan: "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? "(⇒ Heb 1:14).
332 have been present since creation [Cf ⇒ 38.7 Gb] and throughout the history of salvation from afar or near announcing this salvation and serve the realization of God's saving plan: close the Eden, [Cf ⇒ January 3.24] protect Lot. [January 19 ⇒ Cf] saved Hagar and her child, [Cf ⇒ January 21.17] stayed the hand of Abraham [cf ⇒ January 22.11] Law is communicated "at the hands of angels" (⇒ Acts 7 53), they guide the people of God, [cf ⇒ Ex 23.20-23] announce births [cf ⇒ Jud 13] and vocations, [Cf ⇒ Jud 6.11 to 24; ⇒ Is 6.6] and assisted the prophets, [cf ⇒ 1 Kings 19.5] to name but a few. Finally, the angel Gabriel announced the birth of the Precursor and that of Jesus himself [Cf ⇒ Lk 1:11; ⇒ Lk 1:26].
333 from the Incarnation to the Ascension, the life of the Word incarnate is surrounded by the adoration and service of angels. When God "brings the firstborn into the world, he says, worship him all the angels of God" (⇒ Heb 1:6). Their song of praise at the birth of Christ has not ceased to resound in praise Church: "Glory to God. . "(⇒ Lk 2:14). They protect the childhood of Jesus, [cf ⇒ Mt 1:20; 333 ⇒ Mt 2.13; ⇒ Mt 1:19] serve Jesus in the desert, [Cf ⇒ Mk 1:12; ⇒ Mt 4:11] the comfort during the agony, [Cf ⇒ Lk 22.43] when he could have been saved by them from the hand of the enemy [cf ⇒ Mt 26:53] as Israel [cf ⇒ 2Mac 10.29-30; 333 ⇒ 2Mac 11.8]. I'm still the angels who "evangelize" (⇒ Lk 2:10), announcing the Good News of [Cf ⇒ Lk 2.8 to 14] and the Resurrection [cf ⇒ Mt 16:5-7] Christ. The return of Christ, they proclaim, [cf ⇒ Acts 1.10 to 11] will be there, the service of his trial [cf ⇒ Mt 13.41; 333 ⇒ Mt 25:31; ⇒ Lk 12.8-9].
Angels in the Church
334 Similarly, the whole life of the Church benefits from the mysterious and powerful help of angels [cf ⇒ Acts 5.18 to 20; ⇒ At 8.26 to 29; ⇒ At 10.3-8; ⇒ At 12.6 to 11; 334 ⇒ Acts 27.23-25].
335 In the Liturgy, the Church joins with the angels to adore the thrice-holy God, [Roman Missal, "Sanctus"] invokes their assistance (as in the 'In Paradisum deducant you angels... "- In heaven the angels accompany you - the Liturgy of the deceased, or still in the' Hymn of the Cherubim" in Byzantine Liturgy), and celebrates the memory of some angels in particular (St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, the guardian angels).
336 From its beginning [cf ⇒ Mt 18:10] until the hour of death [Cf ⇒ Lk 16.22] human life is surrounded by their protection [cf ⇒ Ps 34.8; ⇒ Ps 91.10 to 13] and by their intercession [Cf ⇒ 33.23 to 24 GB; ⇒ Zech 1.12; 336 ⇒ 12.12 Tb]. "Every the believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life "[St. Basil of Caesarea, Adversus Eunomium, 3, 1: PG 29, 656B]. From here, part of the Christian life, in faith, the blessed company of angels and men united in God
II. The visible world
337 It is God who created the visible world in all its richness, its variety and its order. Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of "work" divine, which end in "rest" of the seventh day [Cf ⇒ 1.1 to 2.4 in January]. The sacred text, concerning the creation, teaches the truths revealed by God for our salvation [cf Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dei Verbum, 11] that allow you to "recognize the inner nature of all creation, its value and his ordination to the praise of God "[Conc Ecumenical Council, Lumen Gentium, 36].
338 Nothing exists that does not owe its existence to God the Creator. The world began when he was taken out of nothing by the Word of God, all existing beings, all nature, all human history are rooted in this primordial event: the genesis of the formation of the world and the beginning of time [ Cf St. Augustine, De Genesi contra Manichaeos, 1, 2, 4: PL 35, 175].
339 Each creature has its own goodness and his own perfection. For each of the works of the "six days" it says: "And God saw that it was good." "It is by their own condition as creatures, all things are endowed with their own stability, truth, goodness, proper laws and order" [Conc Ecumenical Council, Gaudium et Spes, 36]. The various creatures, willed in their own being, reflected, each in its own way a ray of infinite wisdom and goodness of God that man must respect the particular goodness of every creature, to avoid a disorderly use of things, which rejects the Creator and entails harmful consequences for humans and their environment.
340 The interdependence of the creatures is willed by God and the sun and moon, the cedar and the little flower, the eagle and the sparrow: the countless diversities and inequalities tells us that no creature enough in itself, that they exist only in dependence on each other, to complement one another, serving each other.
341 The beauty of the universe. The order and harmony in the world are created by the diversity of beings and the relations existing between them. Man discovers them progressively as the laws of nature. They are the object of admiration of scientists. The beauty of creation reflects the infinite beauty of the Creator. He must inspire the respect and submission of mind and will of man.
342 The hierarchy of creatures is expressed by the order of the "six days", from the less perfect to more perfect. God loves all his creatures, [Cf ⇒ Ps 145.9] takes care of each one, even the sparrow. However, Jesus says: "You are worth more than many sparrows" (Luke ⇒ 12.6-7), or: "How a man better than a sheep! "(⇒ Mt 12:12).
343 Man is the summit of creation. The story inspired expresses by clearly distinguishing the creation of man from the other creatures [Cf ⇒ Gen 1:26].
344 There is a solidarity among all creatures to the fact that all have the same Creator and are all ordered to his glory:
Praised be my Lord with all Your creatures,
especially Sir Brother Sun
which it is ay, and us light.
And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendor
of You Most High, he bears the likeness. . . .
Praised be my Lord, through Sister Water,
which is very useful and humble and precious and pure. .. .
Praised be my Lord, through Sister Mother Earth,
who sustains and governs
and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs .. . .
Praise and bless my Lord,
and rengraziate and serve with great humility [St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun].
345 on Saturday - the end of the work of the "six days". The sacred text says that "God on the seventh day he completed the work he had done" and thus "were finished the heavens and the earth" God "ceased the seventh day from all his work, "" blessed the seventh day and hallowed it "(January ⇒ 2:1-3). These inspired words are rich in healthful teachings:
346 In creation God laid a foundation and the laws that are stable, [Cf ⇒ Heb 4.3-4] on which the believer can rely with confidence , and will be for him the sign and the pledge of unwavering loyalty of the Covenant of God [cf ⇒ Jr 31:35-37; 346 ⇒ Jer 33.19 to 26]. For its part, the man must remain faithful to this foundation and respect the laws that the Creator has inscribed.
347 Creation is made in view of the Sabbath, and then the cult of adoration and worship of God is inscribed in the order of creation [Cf ⇒ January 1.14]. "Work of praeponatur nihil - nothing be preferred to the 'Work of God," says the Rule of Saint Benedict, thereby indicating the proper order of human concerns.
348 The Sabbath is the heart of the Law of Israel. Keeping the commandments is equivalent to match the wisdom and the will of God expressed in the work of creation.
349 on the eighth day. For us, however, has risen a new day: the Resurrection of Christ. The seventh day completes the first creation. The eighth day begins the new creation. Thus, the work of creation culminates in the largest of the redemption. The first creation finds its meaning and its summit in the new creation in Christ, whose glory exceeds that of the first [Cf Roman Missal, Easter Vigil: prayer after the first reading].
SUMMARY
350 Angels are spiritual creatures that endlessly glorify God and serve his salvific plan in relation to other creatures: "Ad omnia Our bona cooperantur Angels - Angels cooperate with all our good "[St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, 114, 3, ad 3].
351 The angels surround Christ their Lord. Serve him especially in fulfilling its mission of salvation for all men.
352 The Church venerates the angels who help her in her earthly pilgrimage and protect every human being.
353 God willed the diversity of his creatures and their own goodness, their interdependence and their order. He designed all the creatures materials the good of mankind. The man, and through him all creation, are destined to the glory of God
354 Observe the laws inscribed in creation and the relations resulting from the nature of things is a principle of wisdom and a foundation morality.
326 In Sacred Scripture, the term "heaven and earth" means all that exists, the whole creation. It also indicates, in the creation, at the same time the bond that unites and distinguishes between heaven and earth: "The earth is the world of men [Cf ⇒ Ps 115.16]. "Heaven", or "heaven", may indicate the firmament, [Cf ⇒ Ps 19.2], but also the "place" just in God our Father in heaven "(⇒ Mt 5:16) [cf ⇒ Ps 115.16] and, consequently, also "heaven" which is eschatological glory. Finally, the word "heaven" means "place" of spiritual beings - angels - God surrounding
327 The profession of faith of the Fourth Lateran Council declares that God "from the beginning of time, created from nothing the one and the other order of creatures, the spiritual and the material, ie, the angels and the earthly world, and then the man, as participant both, composed of soul and body "[Fourth Lateran Council, DS. -Schönm., 800, cf Vatican Council: ibid., 3002 and Paul VI, Credo of the People of God, 8].
I. Angels
The existence of angels - a truth of faith
328 The existence of spiritual beings, disembodied, that Sacred Scripture usually calls' angels is a truth of faith. The testimony of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition.
Chi sono?
329 Sant'Agostino dice a loro riguardo: “Angelus officii nomen est, non naturae. Quaeris nomen huius naturae, spiritus est; quaeris officium, angelus est: ex eo quod est, spiritus est, ex eo quod agit, angelus - La parola angelo designa l'ufficio, non la natura. Se si chiede il nome di questa natura si risponde che è spirito; se si chiede l'ufficio, si risponde che è angelo: è spirito per quello che è, mentre per quello che compie è angelo” [Sant'Agostino, Enarratio in Psalmos, 103, 1, 15]. In tutto il loro essere, gli angeli sono servitori e messaggeri di Dio. Per il fatto che “vedono sempre la faccia the Father. . . which is in heaven "(⇒ Mt 18:10), they are" mighty ones who do his commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word "(⇒ Ps 103.20).
330 As purely spiritual creatures, they have intelligence and will: they are personal creatures [Cf Pius XII, Encyclical Letter. Humani generis: DS. -Schönm., 3891] and immortal [Cf ⇒ Lk 20:36]. Exceeded in perfection all visible creatures. Witness the splendor of their glory [cf ⇒ Dn 10.9 to 12].
Christ "with all his angels"
331 Christ is the center of the angelic world. They are "his angels": "When the Son of Man comes in his glory with all his angels. . . "(⇒ Mt 25:31). They belong to him because we are created through him and for him: "For by Him were all things created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through him and for him "(⇒ Col 1:16). I am even more because its made them messengers of his saving plan: "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? "(⇒ Heb 1:14).
332 have been present since creation [Cf ⇒ 38.7 Gb] and throughout the history of salvation from afar or near announcing this salvation and serve the realization of God's saving plan: close the Eden, [Cf ⇒ January 3.24] protect Lot. [January 19 ⇒ Cf] saved Hagar and her child, [Cf ⇒ January 21.17] stayed the hand of Abraham [cf ⇒ January 22.11] Law is communicated "at the hands of angels" (⇒ Acts 7 53), they guide the people of God, [cf ⇒ Ex 23.20-23] announce births [cf ⇒ Jud 13] and vocations, [Cf ⇒ Jud 6.11 to 24; ⇒ Is 6.6] and assisted the prophets, [cf ⇒ 1 Kings 19.5] to name but a few. Finally, the angel Gabriel announced the birth of the Precursor and that of Jesus himself [Cf ⇒ Lk 1:11; ⇒ Lk 1:26].
333 from the Incarnation to the Ascension, the life of the Word incarnate is surrounded by the adoration and service of angels. When God "brings the firstborn into the world, he says, worship him all the angels of God" (⇒ Heb 1:6). Their song of praise at the birth of Christ has not ceased to resound in praise Church: "Glory to God. . "(⇒ Lk 2:14). They protect the childhood of Jesus, [cf ⇒ Mt 1:20; 333 ⇒ Mt 2.13; ⇒ Mt 1:19] serve Jesus in the desert, [Cf ⇒ Mk 1:12; ⇒ Mt 4:11] the comfort during the agony, [Cf ⇒ Lk 22.43] when he could have been saved by them from the hand of the enemy [cf ⇒ Mt 26:53] as Israel [cf ⇒ 2Mac 10.29-30; 333 ⇒ 2Mac 11.8]. I'm still the angels who "evangelize" (⇒ Lk 2:10), announcing the Good News of [Cf ⇒ Lk 2.8 to 14] and the Resurrection [cf ⇒ Mt 16:5-7] Christ. The return of Christ, they proclaim, [cf ⇒ Acts 1.10 to 11] will be there, the service of his trial [cf ⇒ Mt 13.41; 333 ⇒ Mt 25:31; ⇒ Lk 12.8-9].
Angels in the Church
334 Similarly, the whole life of the Church benefits from the mysterious and powerful help of angels [cf ⇒ Acts 5.18 to 20; ⇒ At 8.26 to 29; ⇒ At 10.3-8; ⇒ At 12.6 to 11; 334 ⇒ Acts 27.23-25].
335 In the Liturgy, the Church joins with the angels to adore the thrice-holy God, [Roman Missal, "Sanctus"] invokes their assistance (as in the 'In Paradisum deducant you angels... "- In heaven the angels accompany you - the Liturgy of the deceased, or still in the' Hymn of the Cherubim" in Byzantine Liturgy), and celebrates the memory of some angels in particular (St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, the guardian angels).
336 From its beginning [cf ⇒ Mt 18:10] until the hour of death [Cf ⇒ Lk 16.22] human life is surrounded by their protection [cf ⇒ Ps 34.8; ⇒ Ps 91.10 to 13] and by their intercession [Cf ⇒ 33.23 to 24 GB; ⇒ Zech 1.12; 336 ⇒ 12.12 Tb]. "Every the believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life "[St. Basil of Caesarea, Adversus Eunomium, 3, 1: PG 29, 656B]. From here, part of the Christian life, in faith, the blessed company of angels and men united in God
II. The visible world
337 It is God who created the visible world in all its richness, its variety and its order. Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of "work" divine, which end in "rest" of the seventh day [Cf ⇒ 1.1 to 2.4 in January]. The sacred text, concerning the creation, teaches the truths revealed by God for our salvation [cf Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dei Verbum, 11] that allow you to "recognize the inner nature of all creation, its value and his ordination to the praise of God "[Conc Ecumenical Council, Lumen Gentium, 36].
338 Nothing exists that does not owe its existence to God the Creator. The world began when he was taken out of nothing by the Word of God, all existing beings, all nature, all human history are rooted in this primordial event: the genesis of the formation of the world and the beginning of time [ Cf St. Augustine, De Genesi contra Manichaeos, 1, 2, 4: PL 35, 175].
339 Each creature has its own goodness and his own perfection. For each of the works of the "six days" it says: "And God saw that it was good." "It is by their own condition as creatures, all things are endowed with their own stability, truth, goodness, proper laws and order" [Conc Ecumenical Council, Gaudium et Spes, 36]. The various creatures, willed in their own being, reflected, each in its own way a ray of infinite wisdom and goodness of God that man must respect the particular goodness of every creature, to avoid a disorderly use of things, which rejects the Creator and entails harmful consequences for humans and their environment.
340 The interdependence of the creatures is willed by God and the sun and moon, the cedar and the little flower, the eagle and the sparrow: the countless diversities and inequalities tells us that no creature enough in itself, that they exist only in dependence on each other, to complement one another, serving each other.
341 The beauty of the universe. The order and harmony in the world are created by the diversity of beings and the relations existing between them. Man discovers them progressively as the laws of nature. They are the object of admiration of scientists. The beauty of creation reflects the infinite beauty of the Creator. He must inspire the respect and submission of mind and will of man.
342 The hierarchy of creatures is expressed by the order of the "six days", from the less perfect to more perfect. God loves all his creatures, [Cf ⇒ Ps 145.9] takes care of each one, even the sparrow. However, Jesus says: "You are worth more than many sparrows" (Luke ⇒ 12.6-7), or: "How a man better than a sheep! "(⇒ Mt 12:12).
343 Man is the summit of creation. The story inspired expresses by clearly distinguishing the creation of man from the other creatures [Cf ⇒ Gen 1:26].
344 There is a solidarity among all creatures to the fact that all have the same Creator and are all ordered to his glory:
Praised be my Lord with all Your creatures,
especially Sir Brother Sun
which it is ay, and us light.
And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendor
of You Most High, he bears the likeness. . . .
Praised be my Lord, through Sister Water,
which is very useful and humble and precious and pure. .. .
Praised be my Lord, through Sister Mother Earth,
who sustains and governs
and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs .. . .
Praise and bless my Lord,
and rengraziate and serve with great humility [St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun].
345 on Saturday - the end of the work of the "six days". The sacred text says that "God on the seventh day he completed the work he had done" and thus "were finished the heavens and the earth" God "ceased the seventh day from all his work, "" blessed the seventh day and hallowed it "(January ⇒ 2:1-3). These inspired words are rich in healthful teachings:
346 In creation God laid a foundation and the laws that are stable, [Cf ⇒ Heb 4.3-4] on which the believer can rely with confidence , and will be for him the sign and the pledge of unwavering loyalty of the Covenant of God [cf ⇒ Jr 31:35-37; 346 ⇒ Jer 33.19 to 26]. For its part, the man must remain faithful to this foundation and respect the laws that the Creator has inscribed.
347 Creation is made in view of the Sabbath, and then the cult of adoration and worship of God is inscribed in the order of creation [Cf ⇒ January 1.14]. "Work of praeponatur nihil - nothing be preferred to the 'Work of God," says the Rule of Saint Benedict, thereby indicating the proper order of human concerns.
348 The Sabbath is the heart of the Law of Israel. Keeping the commandments is equivalent to match the wisdom and the will of God expressed in the work of creation.
349 on the eighth day. For us, however, has risen a new day: the Resurrection of Christ. The seventh day completes the first creation. The eighth day begins the new creation. Thus, the work of creation culminates in the largest of the redemption. The first creation finds its meaning and its summit in the new creation in Christ, whose glory exceeds that of the first [Cf Roman Missal, Easter Vigil: prayer after the first reading].
SUMMARY
350 Angels are spiritual creatures that endlessly glorify God and serve his salvific plan in relation to other creatures: "Ad omnia Our bona cooperantur Angels - Angels cooperate with all our good "[St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, 114, 3, ad 3].
351 The angels surround Christ their Lord. Serve him especially in fulfilling its mission of salvation for all men.
352 The Church venerates the angels who help her in her earthly pilgrimage and protect every human being.
353 God willed the diversity of his creatures and their own goodness, their interdependence and their order. He designed all the creatures materials the good of mankind. The man, and through him all creation, are destined to the glory of God
354 Observe the laws inscribed in creation and the relations resulting from the nature of things is a principle of wisdom and a foundation morality.
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