Monday, November 28 : Vatican Council II

The pilgrim Church is missionary by her very nature, since it is from the mission of the Son and the mission of the Holy Spirit that she draws her origin, in accordance with the decree of God the Father. This decree, however, flows from the “fount – like love” or charity of God the Father … from whom the Son is begotten and Holy Spirit proceeds through the Son, freely creating us on account of His surpassing and merciful kindness and graciously calling us moreover to share with Him His life and His glory, has generously poured out, and does not cease to pour out still, His divine goodness. Thus, He who created all things may at last be “all in all” (1 Cor. 15:28) … But it pleased God to call men to … mold them into a people in which His sons, once scattered abroad might be gathered together (Jn 11:52). This universal design of God for the salvation of the human race is not only carried out, as it were, secretly in the soul of a man… God, in order to establish peace and the communion of sinful human beings with Himself, as well as to fashion them into a fraternal community, decided to intervene in human history in a new and definitive way by sending His Son, clothed in our flesh … that in Him He might restore all things (Eph 1,10). For Jesus Christ was sent into the world as the true mediator between God and men. Since He is God, “all the fullness of the divine nature dwells bodily in Him” (Col 2,9). According to His human nature, on the other hand, He is the new Adam, made head of a renewed humanity (cf. 1 Co 15:45) … He made himself poor for our sakes, though He had been rich, in order that His poverty might enrich us (2 Cor 8:9), … He assumed our entire human nature such as it is found among us poor wretches, save only sin (Heb 4:15; 9:28) … “The Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost” (Lk 19:10). But what the Lord preached that one time, or what was wrought in Him for the saving of the human race, must be spread abroad and published to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8) … so that what He accomplished at that one time for the salvation of all, may in the course of time come to achieve its effect in all.
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