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1 2 | sharing the very life of God. The loftiness of this supernatural
2 2 | the gift of ourselves to God and to our brothers and
3 2 | his incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some
4 2 | only the boundless love of God who "so loved the world
5 2 | of history. The Gospel of God's love for man, the Gospel
6 3 | the mystery of the Word of God who was made flesh (cf.
7 3 | Incarnation of the Son of God, and engage her in her mission
8 5 | every person, in the name of God: respect, protect, love
9 6 | remain, in accordance with God's plan, the "sanctuary of
10 7 | 7. "God did not make death, and
11 7 | that they might exist ... God created man for incorruption,
12 7 | created in the image of God for a destiny of full and
13 8 | not reveal the reason why God prefers Abel's sacrifice
14 8 | clearly shows however that God, although preferring Abel'
15 8 | speed: man's revolt against God in the earthly paradise
16 8 | against man.~After the crime, God intervenes to avenge the
17 8 | avenge the one killed. Before God, who asks him about the
18 9 | 9. But God cannot leave the crime unpunished:
19 9 | one murdered demands that God should render justice (cf.
20 9 | of the "sins which cry to God for justice", and, first
21 9 | human life, belongs only to God: for this reason whoever
22 9 | life, in some way attacks God himself.~Cain is cursed
23 9 | himself.~Cain is cursed by God and also by the earth, which
24 9 | relationships and of friendship with God, the earth becomes "the
25 9 | loneliness and separation from God. Cain will be "a fugitive
26 9 | follow him forever.~And yet God, who is always merciful
27 9 | his personal dignity, and God himself pledges to guarantee
28 9 | the merciful justice of God is shown forth. As Saint
29 9 | then the divine law of God's mercy should be immediately
30 9 | defendant to punishment. ... God drove Cain out of his presence
31 9 | existence of a wild beast. God, who preferred the correction
32 13 | from striving to observe God's law fully. Still, in very
33 19 | brother's keeper", because God entrusts us to one another.
34 19 | of this entrusting that God gives everyone freedom,
35 | eclipse of the sense of God and of man~ ~
36 21 | eclipse of the sense of God and of man, typical of a
37 21 | circle: when the sense of God is lost, there is also a
38 21 | the capacity to discern God's living and saving presence.~
39 21 | curse imposed on him by God, Cain thus addresses the
40 21 | being in the presence of God and before God's just judgment.
41 21 | presence of God and before God's just judgment. It is really
42 22 | Consequently, when the sense of God is lost, the sense of man
43 22 | would disappear ... But when God is forgotten the creature
44 22 | life as a splendid gift of God, something "sacred" entrusted
45 22 | Moreover, once all reference to God has been removed, it is
46 22 | knowledged, or a plan of God for life which must be respected.
47 22 | the loss of contact with God's wise design is the deepest
48 22 | freedom.~By living "as if God did not exist", man not
49 22 | sight of the mystery of God, but also of the mystery
50 23 | eclipse of the sense of God and of man inevitably leads
51 23 | not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base
52 23 | fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind
53 23 | relations with others, with God and with the world. It is
54 24 | eclipse of the sense of God and of man, with all its
55 24 | conscience, as it stands before God in its singleness and uniqueness. 18
56 24 | truth" (1:18): having denied God and believing that they
57 25 | murdered, which cries to God, the source and defender
58 25 | prophetic figure, cries out to God: "You have come to Mount
59 25 | to the city of the living God ... to the mediator of a
60 25 | the Old Covenant, whereby God expressed his will to communicate
61 25 | shows how precious man is in God's eyes and how priceless
62 25 | the Easter Vigil), and if God ?gave his only Son' in order
63 25 | absolute certitude that in God's plan life will be victorious. "
64 25 | comes from the throne of God in the Heavenly Jerusalem (
65 27 | consecrate their lives to God, freely giving of themselves
66 28 | commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this
67 28 | by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways,
68 28 | live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice, and
69 28 | engaged as faith in the Son of God who became man and dwelt
70 29 | such times the People of God, and this includes every
71 29 | revelation proclaimed: that God is with us to free us from
72 30 | once again "the words of God" (Jn 3:34) and meditate
73 30 | Jesus, the "Word of life", God's eternal life is thus proclaimed
74 30 | full value and meaning, for God's eternal life is in fact
75 31 | its life in the eyes of God. When it seemed doomed to
76 31 | s life is the object of God's gentle and intense love.~
77 31 | in which the discovery of God and discovery of self go
78 31 | threatened it need only turn to God with renewed trust in order
79 31 | brought to perfection, by God's free gift, through sharing
80 32 | Jesus of Nazareth. Just as God who "loves the living" (
81 32 | danger, so now the Son of God proclaims to all who feel
82 32 | from him the "good news" of God's concern for them, and
83 32 | oppressed by the devil, for God was with him" (Acts 10:38),
84 33 | one hand and the power of God's gift on the other, there
85 33 | death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and
86 33 | human life if the Son of God has taken it up and made
87 | his Son" (Rom 8:28-29): God's glory shines on the face
88 34 | amazing answer. The life which God gives man is quite different
89 34 | is a manifestation of God in the world, a sign of
90 34 | living man, is the glory of God".23 Man has been given a
91 34 | shines forth a reflection of God himself.~The Book of Genesis
92 34 | places man at the summit of God's creative activity, as
93 34 | living thing" (1:28); this is God's command to the man and
94 34 | account of creation: "The Lord God took the man and put him
95 34 | decision on the part of God, a deliberation to establish
96 34 | Gen 1:26). The life which God offers to man is a gift
97 34 | to man is a gift by which God shares something of himself
98 34 | particular bond between man and God. The Book of Sirach too
99 34 | Sirach too recognizes that God, in creating human beings, "
100 34 | the image of his Creator, God who is true and just (cf.
101 34 | Creator".24 The life which God bestows upon man is much
102 34 | very limits of time: "For God created man for incorruption,
103 35 | come to life: "The Lord God formed man of dust from
104 35 | earth. Because he is made by God and bears within himself
105 35 | an indelible imprint of God, man is naturally drawn
106 35 | man is naturally drawn to God. When he heeds the deepest
107 35 | and in whom the spirit of God the Creator is also alive,
108 35 | there is a reflection of God himself, the definitive
109 35 | made him little less than a god, and crown him with glory
110 35 | Ps 8:5). The glory of God shines on the face of man.
111 35 | graces. In these his gifts God reposes, who has said: ?
112 35 | 2). I thank the Lord our God who has created so wonderful
113 36 | 36. Unfortunately, God's marvellous plan was marred
114 36 | exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped
115 36 | only deforms the image of God in his own person, but is
116 36 | even murderous hatred. When God is not acknowledged as God,
117 36 | God is not acknowledged as God, the profound meaning of
118 36 | compromised.~In the life of man, God's image shines forth anew
119 36 | the coming of the Son of God in human flesh. "Christ
120 36 | the image of the invisible God" (Col 1:15), he "reflects
121 36 | he "reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp
122 36 | Adam had ruined and marred God's plan for human life and
123 36 | brought to perfection in them. God's plan for human beings
124 37 | The life which the Son of God came to give to human beings
125 37 | consists in being begotten of God and sharing in the fullness
126 37 | power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood
127 37 | the will of man, but of God" (Jn 1:12-13).~Sometimes
128 37 | he presents being born of God as a necessary condition
129 37 | attain the end for which God has created him: "Unless
130 37 | cannot see the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:3). To give this
131 37 | you are the Holy One of God" (Jn 6:68-69). Jesus himself,
132 37 | may know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you
133 37 | sent" (Jn 17:3). To know God and his Son is to accept
134 37 | it shares in the life of God.~ ~
135 38 | is therefore the life of God himself and at the same
136 38 | life of the children of God. As they ponder this unexpected
137 38 | truth which comes to us from God in Christ, believers cannot
138 38 | should be called children of God; and so we are. ... Beloved,
139 38 | are. ... Beloved, we are God's children now; it does
140 38 | fact that it comes from God, but also to its final end,
141 38 | destiny of fellowship with God in knowledge and love of
142 38 | praise of man: "the glory of God" is indeed, "man, living
143 38 | consists in the vision of God".27~Immediate consequences
144 38 | become the "place" where God manifests himself, where
145 39 | 39. Man's life comes from God; it is his gift, his image
146 39 | sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord
147 39 | do with it as he wills. God himself makes this clear
148 39 | life has its foundation in God and in his creative activity: "
149 39 | creative activity: "For God made man in his own image" (
150 39 | are thus in the hands of God, in his power: "In his hand
151 39 | and life" (Dt 32:39). ~But God does not exercise this power
152 39 | life is in the hands of God, it is no less true that
153 39 | of a loving plan by which God brings together all the
154 39 | death arising from sin: "God did not make death, and
155 40 | done?" (Gen 4:10), which God addresses to Cain after
156 40 | the property and gift of God the Creator and Father.~
157 41 | the providential love of God: "But I say to you, love
158 41 | Thus the deepest element of God's commandment to protect
159 42 | for it, is a task which God entrusts to every man, calling
160 42 | lordship over the world: "God blessed them, and God said
161 42 | God blessed them, and God said to them, ?Be fruitful
162 42 | depth of the lordship which God bestows on man. It is a
163 42 | of Wisdom makes clear: "O God of my fathers and Lord of
164 42 | towards the creation which God has put at the service of
165 43 | certain sharing by man in God's lordship is also evident
166 43 | Vatican Council teaches: "God himself who said, ?It is
167 43 | in the "creative work" of God, the Council wishes to point
168 43 | one flesh" (Gen 2:24), and God who makes himself present.
169 43 | particular image and likeness of God himself: the genealogy of
170 43 | parents, cooperate with God the Creator in conceiving
171 43 | we wish to emphasize that God himself is present in human
172 43 | begetting ?on earth'. Indeed, God alone is the source of that ?
173 43 | Gen 3:20). Aware that God has intervened, Eve exclaims: "
174 43 | life from parents to child, God's own image and likeness
175 43 | expresses it in this way: "When God created man, he made him
176 43 | made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created
177 43 | role as co-workers with God who transmits his image
178 43 | the creator of images of God".34~Thus, a man and woman
179 43 | the act of procreation, God's gift is accepted and a
180 44 | upon eternity. The word of God frequently repeats the call
181 44 | thinking of the People of God.~In the Old Testament, sterility
182 44 | transmit has its origins in God. We see this attested in
183 44 | of life and the action of God the Creator.~"Before I formed
184 44 | very beginning, is part of God's plan. Job, from the depth
185 44 | contemplate the work of God who miraculously formed
186 44 | Expressions of awe and wonder at God's intervention in the life
187 44 | she professes her faith in God, both the source and guarantee
188 45 | the presence of the Son of God among men first becomes
189 46 | old age and grey hairs, O God, do not forsake me, till
190 46 | life is in the hands of God: "You, O Lord, hold my lot" (
191 46 | 5), and he accepts from God the need to die: "This is
192 46 | by an unshakable faith in God's life-giving power. Illness
193 46 | Ps 116:10); "O Lord my God, I cried to you for help,
194 47 | healings he performed, shows God's great concern even for
195 48 | of its own. By accepting God's gift, man is obliged to
196 48 | truth of life is revealed by God's commandment. The word
197 48 | surprising, therefore, that God's Covenant with his people
198 48 | dimension. In that Covenant, God's commandment is offered
199 48 | commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this
200 48 | by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways,
201 48 | multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land
202 48 | fullness of the truth about God, man and history will the
203 48 | by observing the Law of God that we are able to bring
204 49 | to the Law of life which God has inscribed in human hearts
205 49 | ways of living which ignore God's plan, it is the Prophets
206 49 | renewed relationship with God and with others, and of
207 49 | possible thanks to the gift of God who purifies and renews: "
208 49 | gospel", the good news of God's lordship over the world,
209 50 | this man was the Son of God!" (Mk 15:39). It is thus,
210 50 | weakness, that the the Son of God is revealed for who he is:
211 50 | him to the very life of God. ~On the Cross, the miracle
212 51 | It is the very life of God which is now shared with
213 51 | is continually given to God's children, making them
214 51 | world said: "I have come, O God, to do your will" (cf. Heb
215 51 | proceeds from the mouth of God. Thus we shall learn not
216 | YOU SHALL NOT KILL ~ ~GOD'S HOLY LAW~ ~
217 52 | a sharing in the life of God himself. This life is attained
218 52 | steal...' " (Mt 19:18).~God's commandment is never detached
219 52 | is both a great gift of God and an exacting task for
220 52 | In giving life to man, God demands that he love, respect
221 52 | as the living image of God, is willed by his Creator
222 52 | Gregory of Nyssa writes that "God made man capable of carrying
223 52 | with love and respect for God's plan. Man's lordship however
224 52 | and infinite lordship of God. Hence man must exercise
225 52 | boundless wisdom and love of God. And this comes about through
226 52 | about through obedience to God's holy Law: a free and joyful
227 52 | lies-he is the "minister of God's plan".40 ~Life is entrusted
228 53 | the creative action of God', and it remains forever
229 53 | Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life
230 53 | forth the central content of God's revelation on the sacredness
231 53 | original covenant between God and humanity after the purifying
232 53 | violence (cf. Gen 9:5-6).~God proclaims that he is absolute
233 53 | Precisely for this reason God will severely judge every
234 53 | 14; Jer 50:34; Ps 19:14). God thus shows that he does
235 54 | the commandment to love God; "on these two commandments
236 54 | children and by abortion cause God's creatures to perish; they
237 55 | being, in whom the image of God is present, is a particularly
238 55 | particularly serious sin. Only God is the master of life! Yet
239 55 | deeper understanding of what God's commandment prohibits
240 55 | which values proposed by God's Law seem to involve a
241 56 | and thus, in the end, with God's plan for man and society.
242 57 | absolute binding force of God's commandment.~In effect,
243 57 | safeguards the People of God from error when "it shows
244 57 | moral law, and indeed to God himself, the author and
245 61 | logical consequence that God's commandment "You shall
246 61 | mothers' womb, belong to God who searches them and knows
247 61 | the personal objects of God's loving and fatherly providence.~
248 62 | beginning it directly involves God's creative activity".67
249 62 | upon the written Word of God, is transmitted by the Church'
250 62 | is contrary to the Law of God which is written in every
251 64 | fundamental relationship to God, man thinks he is his own
252 65 | definitive meeting with God.~Taking into account these
253 65 | violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate
254 65 | upon the written word of God, is transmitted by the Church'
255 66 | represents a rejection of God's absolute sovereignty over
256 66 | of Eden: to become like God who "knows good and evil" (
257 66 | and evil" (cf. Gen 3:5). God alone has the power over
258 67 | trust fully in the plan of God.~The Apostle Paul expressed
259 67 | love through sharing, by God's gracious gift and one'
260 | We must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:
261 72 | moral order and derives from God. Consequently, laws and
262 73 | warned that "we must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:
263 73 | noted: "the midwives feared God" (ibid.). It is precisely
264 73 | precisely from obedience to God-to whom alone is due that
265 74 | legislation, are contrary to God's law. Indeed, from the
266 74 | everyone will be judged by God himself (cf. Rom 2:6; 14:
267 75 | 75. God's commandments teach us
268 75 | incompatible with the love of God and with the dignity of
269 75 | to direct one's life to God. 99~In this sense, the negative
270 76 | truth, our gratitude to God for the great gift of life (
271 76 | with loving fidelity. The God of the Covenant has entrusted
272 76 | life for us, the Son of God showed what heights and
273 77 | with the requirements of God's bountiful love in Jesus
274 77 | the original covenant of God the Creator with mankind.
275 | You are God's own people, that you may
276 79 | the people of life because God, in his unconditional love,
277 79 | our awareness of being "God's own people, that we may
278 79 | source and model the Son of God made man, who "by dying
279 80 | once he is adopted by the God of the universe as a son,
280 81 | proclamation of a living God who is close to us, who
281 81 | relationship, a gift of God, the fruit and sign of his
282 81 | human life, as a gift of God, is sacred and inviolable.
283 83 | arises from faith in the God of life, who has created
284 83 | unending communion with God our Creator and Father.~ ~
285 84 | life means to celebrate the God of life, the God who gives
286 84 | celebrate the God of life, the God who gives life: "We must
287 84 | community, praise and bless God our Father, who knitted
288 84 | marvels of creation: for God has granted to man a dignity
289 84 | dies we see the image of God's glory. We celebrate this
290 84 | being, a sign of the living God, an icon of Jesus Christ.~
291 86 | spiritual worship acceptable to God (cf. Rom 12:1), the Gospel
292 86 | praise and gratitude to God who has given us this gift.
293 86 | for your intrepid trust in God and in his love. We thank
294 87 | other as a person for whom God has made us responsible.
295 90 | that person to answer to God, to his or her own conscience
296 92 | Here it is a matter of God's own love, of which parents
297 92 | in which life-the gift of God-can be properly welcomed
298 92 | them to fulfil the vocation God has given them. The parents'
299 92(120)| Biblical tradition precisely as God's gift (cf. Ps 127:3) and
300 93 | glorify and give thanks to God for the gift of life, and
301 96 | condition as a creature to whom God has granted being and life
302 96 | mystery: the mystery of God".127 Where God is denied
303 96 | mystery of God".127 Where God is denied and people live
304 100 | life, like the Kingdom of God itself, is growing and producing
305 100 | can rely on the help of God, for whom nothing is impossible (
306 100 | impassioned plea rise to God, the Creator and lover of
307 102 | s Birth the encounter of God with man takes place and
308 102 | earthly journey of the Son of God begins, a journey which
309 103 | beginning" of the Kingdom of God. 139 The Church sees this
310 103 | the woman of glory in whom God's plan could be carried
311 103 | and women new birth into God's own life. But the Church
312 103 | and bore the One who is "God from God", "true God from
313 103 | the One who is "God from God", "true God from true God".
314 103 | is "God from God", "true God from true God". Mary is
315 103 | God", "true God from true God". Mary is truly the Mother
316 103 | Mary is truly the Mother of God, the Theotokos, in whose
317 103 | to motherhood bestowed by God on every woman is raised
318 104 | his Incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some
319 105 | afraid, Mary" and "with God nothing will be impossible" (
320 105 | pervaded by the certainty that God is near to her and that
321 105 | finds "a place prepared by God" (Rev 12:6) in the desert,
322 105 | of the manifestation of God's love for his people (cf.
323 105 | the praise and glory of God, ~the Creator and lover