Sin
Sunday, August 17th, 2008The Definition of Sin
Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbour caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. It has been defined as ‘an utterance, a deed, or a desire […]
Promise To Abraham
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008The Spirit of the Promise
Disfigured by sin and death, man remains “in the image of God” in the image of the Son, but is deprived ‘of the glory of God’, of his ‘likeness’. The promise made to Abraham inaugurates the economy of salvation, at the culmination of which the Son himself will assume that […]
Hope of Abraham
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Hope
Christian hope takes up and fulfills the hope of the chosen people which has its origin and model in the hope of Abraham, who was blessed abundantly by the promises of God fulfilled in Isaac, and who was purified by the test of the sacrifice. “Hoping against hope, he believed, and thus became the […]
Call of Abraham
Sunday, July 20th, 2008God Chooses Abraham
In order to gather together humanity God calls Abram from his country, his kindred, and his father’s house, and makes him Abraham, that is,”the father of a multitude of nations”. “In you all the nations of the earth shall be blessed”.
The people descended from Abraham would be the trustees of the promise […]
