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What is contemplative prayer? St. Teresa answers: “Contemplative prayer
[oracion mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between
friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves
us.”⁶
Contemplative prayer seeks him “whom my soul loves.”⁷ It is
Jesus, and in him, the Father. We seek him, because to desire him is always the
beginning of love, and we seek him in that pure faith which causes us to be
born of him and to live in him. In this inner prayer we can still meditate, but
our attention is fixed on the Lord himself.

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With the Nicene Creed, we answer by confessing: “For us men and for our
salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit, he became
incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.”

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But why did God not prevent the first man from sinning? St. Leo the Great
responds, “Christ’s inexpressible grace gave us blessings better than
those the demon’s envy had taken away.”³⁰⁷ and St. Thomas Aquinas
wrote, “There is nothing to prevent human nature’s being raised up to
something greater, even after sin; God permits evil in order to draw forth some
greater good. Thus St. Paul says, ‘Where sin increased, grace abounded all the
more’; and the Exsultet sings, ‘O happy fault,. . . which gained for us so
great a Redeemer!'”³⁰⁸

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CHAPTER THREE

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Signs and
symbols

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In her Magisterial teaching of the faith and in the witness of her saints, the
Church has never forgotten that “sinners were the authors and the
ministers of all the sufferings that the divine Redeemer
endured.”³⁸⁹ Taking into account the fact that our sins affect
Christ himself,³⁹⁰ The Church does not hesitate to impute to Christians
the gravest responsibility for the torments inflicted upon Jesus, a
responsibility with which they have all too often burdened the Jews alone:

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Jesus’ invitation to enter his kingdom comes in the form of parables, a
characteristic feature of his teaching.²⁶¹ Through his parables he
invites people to the feast of the kingdom, but he also asks for a radical
choice: to gain the kingdom, one must give everything.²⁶² Words are not
enough, deeds are required.²⁶³ The parables are like mirrors for man:
will he be hard soil or good earth for the word?²⁶⁴ What use has he
made of the talents he has received?²⁶⁵ Jesus and the presence of the
kingdom in this world are secretly at the heart of the parables. One must enter
the kingdom, that is, become a disciple of Christ, in order to “know the
secrets of the kingdom of heaven”.²⁶⁶ For those who stay
“outside”, everything remains enigmatic.²⁶⁷

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It is the same priest, Christ
Jesus, whose sacred person his minister truly represents. Now the minister, by
reason of the sacerdotal consecration which he has received, is truly made like
to the high priest and possesses the authority to act in the power and place of
the person of Christ himself (virtute ac persona ipsius Christi).²⁴
Christ is the source of all priesthood: the priest of the old law was a figure
of Christ, and the priest of the new law acts in the person of
Christ.²⁵

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