We have seen that one of the temptations of all religions is that of a refusal to wait patiently for
the fullness of mystery to disclose itself.
Not exact matches
Though we human beings must use concepts
to grasp the content
of our faith, in the end God does not reveal a series
of ideas: He reveals the «
mystery»
of Himself in the person
of Christ, who is «the
fullness of all revelation».
The love
of a man and a woman, lived out in the power
of baptismal life, now becomes the sacrament
of the love between Christ and his Church, and a witness
to the
mystery of fidelity and unity from which the «New Eve» is born and by which she lives in her earthly pilgrimage toward the
fullness of the eternal wedding.»
«For he has made known
to us in all wisdom and insight the
mystery of his will, according
to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the
fullness of time,
to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth» (Eph.
Church growth, if it is
to have integrity, must be a by - product when the church is true
to its deepest calling
to be the body through which the infinite
mystery of God is confronted and all life is freed from bondage and expanded
to its
fullness.
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of our trespasses, according
to the riches
of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known3
to us the
mystery of his will, according
to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the
fullness of time,
to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
At a time when individualism was still, generally speaking, obscuring the
fullness of traditional catholic teaching on this
mystery, he wrote: «When Christ comes
to one
of his faithful it is not simply in order
to commune with him as an individual;... when, through the mouth
of the priest, he says Hoc est corpus meum, these words extend beyond the morsel
of bread over which they are said: they give birth
to the whole mystical body
of Christ.
«For he has made known
to us in all wisdom and insight the
mystery of his will, according
to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the
fullness of time,
to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
For [God] has made known
to us in wisdom and insight the
mystery of his will, according
to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the
fullness of time,
to unite all things in [Christ], things is heaven and things on earth.
He is at the same time the revelation
of the Father, fullof grace and truth «He came
to us out
of the
fullness of time contained in the
mystery of God, and it was
to this
mystery that he returned after «he had moved among us»» (Romano Guardini: The Lord.
Thus it is confidently said that the «
mystery»
of the will «
of the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ» is «in the
fullness of time»
to «gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth.»