In his Wednesday audience, the Pope said, "speaking about God means, first and foremost, being clear about what we
must bring to the men and women of our time. God has spoken to us, …
not an abstract or hypothetical God, but a real God, a God Who exists,
Who entered history and remains present in history: the God of Jesus
Christ ... as a response to the fundamental question of why and how to
live. Therefore, speaking about God requires a continual growth in
faith, familiarity with Jesus and His Gospel, a profound knowledge of
God and strong passion for His plan for salvation, without giving in to
the temptations of success. … We must not fear the humility of taking
small steps, trusting in the leaven that makes the dough rise slowly and
mysteriously. In speaking about God, in the work of evangelisation
under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we must return to the simplicity
and essential nature of proclamation: the concrete Good News of God Who
cares about us, the love of God which Jesus Christ brought close to us,
even unto the Cross, and which in the Resurrection opens us to life
without end, to eternal life"...
"Speaking about God, therefore, means enabling others to understand
through words and acts that God is not a competitor in our existence but
rather its true guarantor, the guarantor of the greatness of the human
person. Thus we return to the beginning: speaking about God means
communicating, with power and simplicity, through words and the life we
lead, that which is essential: the God of Jesus Christ, the God Who
showed us a love so great that He took on human flesh, died and rose
again for us; the God Who asks us to follow Him and to allow ourselves
to be transformed by His immense love in order to renew our lives and
our relationships; the God Who gave us the Church, to allow us to
journey together and, through the Word and the Sacraments, to renew the
entire City of Man so that it might become the City of God", concluded
the Pope.
from Vatican Information Service
11/28/2012
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