What is the Chruch?
What is the Kingdom of God?
God created man to partake in his Divine Life
Man rejected it
God sought out man to reconcile him and restore him to what he was created for
The Son brought redemption by his Paschal Mystery and preached of the Kingdom of God
He instituted a New Covenant, with a New Covenant in a New Passover and New Paschal Lamb
The New Chosen People, New Priesthood in this New Covenant he established and called the Church, with Peter as the Rock
He formed the Apostles and taught them about the Kingdom od God, preparing them for the reception of the Holy Spirit, the Sanctifying grace God created us to participate in
It is in the Church, establish by Christ, that the Holy Spirit and sanctifying grace is received for our transformation and salvation
What is God's plan for man?
God's plan for man
- Share in his divine life
- Inaugurated by creation/salvation history
- reached fullness with Christ and his Church
- will be fulfilled at end time
- when all who cooperated with grace are gathered together in the universal Church
How does God make it possible for man to participate in the divine life?
Man has a share in divine life through
- the incrantation and the
- graces of the redemption
ex: Apostles receive the grace of H.S. after "I believe"
- i believe is a necessary requirement, but it is not the source of grace or means by which we receieve it
- mediated through the Church Christ founded
- ex: baptism, Nicodemus, go baptize, Acts 2, 1 Peter
- who is given the commission by Christ? Apostles
What is the Church?
Churchis the New Assembly of God's people, redeemed by Christ, and is the instrument of this redemption
New Assembly of God's Chosen People
Ekklesia (Greek) - those called out
Qahal - Chosen People
Successors of the Chosen People of the Old Covenant
The People of God
Instrument of this Redemption
The role of the Church is to bring objective redemption to each subject, to each person
That Baptism example
- without Peter and the Apostles, what would happen when Christ ascended?
The Kingdom of God
Christ is the King and he brings about the Kingdom of Heaven
Bold Claim - the Kingdom of Heacen on earth subsists in the Catholic Church
What is the Kingdom of God?
Christ
Christ acting in the hearts of men
Mankind in communion with the Blessed Trinity
In the Catholic Church Christ is found, full and entire, and the means in which one can come into communion with the Blessed Trinity: receive the Spirit, transform into Christ, and thus become adopted son of the Father
New Kingdom vs Old
Receiving the Holy Spirit; grace, divine life within
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