Last week we bid farewell to Lumen Gentium thought there is an appendix attached to it. If you are really interested in that, you can
find it on line.
Today we embark on a new constitution from the Second
Vatican Council: Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation. The title is clear enough but it leaves
something to be desired as a marketing gimmick.
The Latin title which we will be using is Dei Verbum.
In these introductory paragraphs it talks about God trying
His best NOT to be mysterious. God wants
to be to you like a Father and not one that divorced your mother, got
remarried, and now lives in another state.
It is intimacy with you for which He is looking.
From the very beginning, God walked and talked with us in the Garden. He lavished us not
only with life but with every gift. It
was not God who turned away from us because of sin, but we turned away from
God. Immediately Adam and Eve cover over
themselves and hid. That is what sin
does, it causes division; division between us, between us and God, and even
within ourselves. And division does not
do a whole lot of good for communication.
The whole Old Testament seems to be the story of God trying to break
back into history, re-establishing communication and connection, revealing
Himself to us so that we might know and love Him Who so loves us.
Revelation comes to us through deeds and words though it is
the words that transmit that revelation to us by way of proclamation and Church
teaching. Finally the fullness of
revelation came to us by The Word, God made flesh, the Son of God coming among
us: Jesus Christ. It is in Jesus Christ,
through the power of the Holy Spirit that God reveals Himself to us. It is also in Christ, through the Holy Spirit
that we return to the Father.
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