Katholisch Leben!

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Der Mensch ist, seit er sich über seine Existenz bewusst ist, mit der Frage des "Woher?" und "Wohin?" beschäftigt. Die katholische Kirche kennt den dreifaltigen Gott (Trinität), deren erste Person als Gott Vater bezeichnet wird. Die Frage nach Gott könnte zum Leitmotiv des 21. Jahrhunderts werden. Vielleicht hat Papst Benedikt XVI. mit seiner Enzyklika von 2005 dazu bereits einen wesentlichen Beitrag geleistet. Noch zu Beginn der Neuzeit war es eine Absonderlichkeit, die Existenz Gottes zu bestreiten. Erst zu Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts breitete sich in Europa der Atheismus als Massenphänomen aus. Die Kirche konnte sich auch lange Zeit im 20. Jahrhundert noch auf die selbstverständlich anzutreffende religiöse Praxis derer stützen, die an Gott glauben. Während aber einerseits der Fortschritt (einschließlich der durch ihn begünstigten großen Katastrophen der Gegenwart) die Religion zu beeinträchtigen schien, ist die Gottesfrage sowohl aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive als auch aus Gründen der existenziellen Erfahrungen der Gegenwart zumindest wieder offen.

Eine Theologie, die auf selbstbewusste Weise von der Glaubenstradition der Kirche spricht, könnte also neue Aufmerksamkeit finden: Insofern der Mensch auf Erden keine unmittelbare Erkenntnis des göttlichen Wesens besitzt, sondern dieses nur indirekt in der Weise einer gleichsam im Dunkeln tastenden Annäherung aus den Werken Gottes in der Schöpfung erschließen kann, kann der Mensch eher sagen, was Gott nicht ist, als was er wirklich ist (vgl. Thomas von Aquin, STh I q. 2). Diese prinzipiell negative (philosophische) Theologie wird durch die Offenbarung Gottes in gewisser Weise überholt und aufgehoben, da Gott sich im Wort selbst aussagt und mitteilt. Dennoch bleibt auch innerhalb dessen das Prinzip der Analogie gewahrt, wonach zwischen Schöpfer und Geschöpf keine noch so große Ähnlichkeit ausgesagt werden kann, ohne dass diese Benennung nicht eine noch größere Unähnlichkeit in sich einschließt (vgl. 4. Laterankonzil, 1215, DH 806).

Gott ist das absolut vollkommene Wesen; er ist der Ursprung und Schöpfer aller Dinge. Er ist das Ziel der Schöpfung und ihr Vollender. Er allein ist der Gute schlechthin. Gott in seiner ewigen Existenz ruht in sich; Gott verdankt sich niemand anderem. Er ist reiner Geist, erhaben über seine Schöpfung (transzendent), von ihr verschieden und doch durch sein erhaltendes Wirken und seine Vorsehung in ihr zuinnerst gegenwärtig (immanent).

Gott ist gerecht (griech. "dikaiosyne")und barmherzig, allwissend und allmächtig. Er ist der Heilige, der absolute Herr, der dennoch freie Wesen erschaffen hat, die dazu berufen sind, ihn zu lieben und ihm zu dienen. In Jesus Christus hat das ungeschaffene und ewige Wort Gottes Fleisch angenommen. Gott ist auf diese Weise Mensch geworden in der Zeit, ohne sein Gottsein aufzugeben oder zu verlieren. Im Heiligen Geist, der dritten göttlichen Person, heiligt und vollendet Gott das Werk seiner Liebe im Hinblick auf den Menschen und die ganze Schöpfung.

Anbetung (cultus latriae) nennt man die Verehrung Gottes. Abgestuft wird die Gottesmutter hochverehrt (cultus hyperduliae), die Heiligen verehrt (cultus duliae).

Eingriffe Gottes in die Menschheitsgeschichte

Seit Anbeginn der Zeiten hat Gott in die Menschheitsgeschichte eingegriffen und die Menschen geführt. Propheten waren auserwählt, die Worte Gottes bis zur Geburt des Erlösers zu überbringen. Ein besonderer Prophet war Johannes der Täufer, der zeitgleich mit Jesus Christus lebte und diesen taufte.

Literatur

Papst Benedikt XVI., Enzyklika "Deus Caritas est"
Pur spezial "Existiert Gott" (Katholisches Themenheft - 20 Seiten, DIN A 5) Fe-Medienverlag

(Quelle: http://www.kathpedia.com/index.php/Gott)

Beitrag von Catholic and Proud.

Beitrag von I Love Being Catholic.

Fr. Barron and Dr. Scott Hahn discuss The God of the Old Testament

Maleachi 1,6

"Der Sohn ehrt seinen Vater und der Knecht seinen Herrn. Wenn ich der Vater bin - wo bleibt dann die Ehrerbietung? Wenn ich der Herr bin - wo bleibt dann die Furcht vor mir?"

(Einheitsübersetzung)

God the Father

True, our Heavenly Father is much better than our earthly fathers. In Him we can trust Him fully to never walk away from us and never stop loving us no matter what. There are no strings, no conditions to His eternal love for us. It is impossible for us to measure His great love for us. When we can accept that and trust and lean on Him at all times, in all things, then you will have peace that passes all understanding.

"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Phil. 4:6-7 (King James Version)

Andre

Beitrag von Charisma News.

God is Always Listening

Be assured, God is always listening. But He may seem like He is absent sometimes if we are in sin. Sometimes also He may seem to be absent whether or not you are in sin. Sometimes He wants you to just stop, and be still and mediate on Him, His Word and prayer. He is always there and always listening. Faith is believing in something we cannot see, something we cannot feel, but as the air seem like an imagination as we cannot see it, we know it is there. God has revealed Himself in creation, and thus you can be assured He is there.

Andre

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Links International

Radio Vatikan: Angelus: Gott bewusst Abba - Vater - nennen

Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio: God as Father?

Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology: The Importance of the Covenants

Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology: The Importance of the Covenants II

Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology: The Importance of the Covenants III

Creation Ministries International: Whats in a pronoun? The divine gender controversy. By Lita Cosner: http://creation.com/whats-in-a-pronoun-the-divine-gender-controversy

Resources

Manred Lutz: Eine kleine Geschichte des Größten (CDs)

Fr. Bill Casey, C.P.M.: Confidence in God (CDs)

St. Pauls: Rev. Benedict Groeschel CFR, Ed.D: Kowing the Father - Understanding the Depths of Love and Mercy that Surround Us (CD)

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Jeremiah 29:13

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"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."

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The Great Commandment

Matthew 22:36-40

King James Version (KJV)

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

My King

Funny thing, if I remember correctly there once used to be a rabbi who did not have any business plan for church mega-growth. No publicity department. No homepage. No emails. No money. Even those He chose as followers were - theologically speaking - illiterates. A handful of dudes, and one even was a bum.

What was He thinking?

When He preached, He used words that drove people away from Him. He couldn't care less. He even asked the remaining rest if they wanted to leave, too. No political correctness here.

Again: What was He thinking?

He could have used other means. He could have been the kind of leader that people back then (and today?) were waiting for. The mighty warlord. The knight in shining armour. The one that kicks some .... and throws those Romans out.

Yes, He could have. He had all the power to do that - and more than that. And what did He do? He dealt with the lowest of the lowest and humbled Himself to their level. He loved people in a way unknown before. With a love that asked for nothing and gave everything. With a love that puts us to shame even today.

He did not fulfill people's expectations. He did not give them what they wanted. He gave them what they truly needed. And to do so, He gave His utmost: He sacrificed Himself and gave His life so we can live. He came down on earth to become man so men could become sons of God. Dying on the cross like a criminal, He even prayed for those who helped nailing Him up there.

And what's worst: He even asked everything of His disciples. They were told to give - no: to sacrifice! - everything they have. To sell all of their possessions, give their money to the poor and follow Him without even looking back. They were even told to give their own lives!

I guess He would still be sort of out of place in some of the churches today.

If I remember correctly, His name was Jesus.

Anybody by chance remember Him?

He is the ruler of my life. He is the one I love and follow.

He is my king.

My saviour.

Rob

The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

King James Version (KJV)

16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.

18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

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Evangelikale Katholiken?

Geht denn das überhaupt - evangelikal und katholisch? Nun ja, abgesehen vom Prinzip "Sola Scriptura" (also der Bibel als einzige Autorität) geht das durchaus. Mehr noch: es wäre vielleicht die Zukunft der Katholischen Kirche. Es scheint revolutionär, aber wäre es denn so abwegig, wenn es von kirchlicher Seite her möglich wäre, neben den bestehenden Strukturen evangelikale Strukturen zuzulassen - mit ähnlichem Gemeindeaufbau, Glaubensverständnis, Glaubenspraxis, Jüngerschaftsprizip, Evangelisation usw. Warum denn nicht?

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Father Joseph Ratzinger 1969 Prediction of the Future of the Church

In a 1969 German radio broadcast, Father Joseph Ratzinger offered this prediction of the future of the Church:

“The future of the Church can and will issue from those whose roots are deep and who live from the pure fullness of their faith. It will not issue from those who accommodate themselves merely to the passing moment or from those who merely criticize others and assume that they themselves are infallible measuring rods; nor will it issue from those who take the easier road, who sidestep the passion of faith, declaring false and obsolete, tyrannous and legalistic, all that makes demands upon men, that hurts them and compels them to sacrifice themselves.

To put this more positively: The future of the Church, once again as always, will be reshaped by saints, by men, that is, whose minds probe deeper than the slogans of the day, who see more than others see, because their lives embrace a wider reality. Unselfishness, which makes men free, is attained only through the patience of small daily acts of self-denial. By this daily passion, which alone reveals to a man in how many ways he is enslaved by his own ego, by this daily passion and by it alone, a man’s eyes are slowly opened. He sees only to the extent that he has lived and suffered.

If today we are scarcely able any longer to become aware of God, that is because we find it so easy to evade ourselves, to flee from the depths of our being by means of the narcotic of some pleasure or other. Thus our own interior depths remain closed to us. If it is true that a man can see only with his heart, then how blind we are!

How does all this affect the problem we are examining? It means that the big talk of those who prophesy a Church without God and without faith is all empty chatter. We have no need of a Church that celebrates the cult of action in political prayers. It is utterly superfluous. Therefore, it will destroy itself. What will remain is the Church of Jesus Christ, the Church that believes in the God who has become man and promises us life beyond death. The kind of priest who is no more than a social worker can be replaced by the psychotherapist and other specialists; but the priest who is no specialist, who does not stand on the [sidelines], watching the game, giving official advice, but in the name of God places himself at the disposal of man, who is beside them in their sorrows, in their joys, in their hope and in their fear, such a priest will certainly be needed in the future.

Let us go a step farther. From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, it will be seen much more as a voluntary society, entered only by free decision. As a small society, it will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members. Undoubtedly it will discover new forms of ministry and will ordain to the priesthood approved Christians who pursue some profession. In many smaller congregations or in self-contained social groups, pastoral care will normally be provided in this fashion. Along-side this, the full-time ministry of the priesthood will be indispensable as formerly. But in all of the changes at which one might guess, the Church will find her essence afresh and with full conviction in that which was always at her center: faith in the triune God, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, in the presence of the Spirit until the end of the world. In faith and prayer she will again recognize the sacraments as the worship of God and not as a subject for liturgical scholarship.

The Church will be a more spiritual Church, not presuming upon a political mandate, flirting as little with the Left as with the Right. It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek. The process will be all the more arduous, for sectarian narrow-mindedness as well as pompous self-will will have to be shed. One may predict that all of this will take time. The process will be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution — when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain — to the renewal of the nineteenth century.

But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.

And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of faith. It may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but it will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.”

https://www.romancatholicman.com/father-joseph-ratzinger-1969-prediction-future-church/

Beitrag von Evangelical Catholics.

Michael Card: "Why?"

Why did it have to be a friend who chose to betray the Lord?

and why did he use a kiss to show them, that's not what a kiss is for?

Only a friend can betray a friend, a stranger has nothing to gain.

and only a friend comes close enough to ever cause so much pain.

Why did it have to be a thorny crown place upon his head?

It should have been a royal one, made of jewels and gold instead.

It had to be a crown of thorns, because in this world that we live,

all that would seek to love a thorn is all the world has to give.

Why did it have to be a heavy cross he was made to bear?

and why did they nail His feet and hands; His love would have held him there.

It was a cross for on a cross, a thief was supposed to pay.

and Jesus had come into the world to steal every heart away.

Yes, Jesus had come into the world to steal every heart away.

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"Interesting that they call it "gay pride" because pride is the worst of sins and the root of all other sins - in essence a stubborn rebellion against God and his commandments. This parade in Tel Aviv is awful and shameful not only because Israel promotes sexual perversion and the distortion of God's purpose for the human person, but it's even worse because they celebrate it with "pride". Remember that God will extend His protection upon you, Israel, only to the extent that you keep his commandments. In other words, you are inviting disaster upon your nation. Repent!"

Andre Villeneuve on the Gay Pride in Israel

“We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.”

― G.K. Chesterton

If the Church becomes more and more like the world, why would we need the Church then anymore? The world does what the world does - and it can do that way better than Church people will ever be able to. If we don't have more than this, if we are no different than anybody else, what's the point of being a follower of Jesus Christ?

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

Wisdom of the ancients:
"Should we look to kings and princes to put right the inequalities between rich and poor? Should we require soldiers to come and seize the rich person's gold and distribute it among his destitute neighbors? Should we beg the emporer to impose a tax on the rich so great that it reduces them to the level of the poor and then to share the proceeds of that tax among everyone? Equality imposed by force would achieve nothing, and do much harm. Those who combined both cruel hearts and sharp minds would soon find ways of making themselves rich again. Worse still, the rich whose gold was taken away would feel bitter and resentful; while the poor who received the gold from the hands of soldiers would feel no gratitude, because no generosity would have prompted the gift. Far from bringing moral benefit to society, it would actually do moral harm. Material justice cannot be accomplished by compulsion, a change of heart will not follow. The only way to achieve true justice is to change people's hearts first - and then they will joyfully share their wealth."
-- St. John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople (died in 407 A.D.)

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"But do you and I realize what we are doing at this point? We are molding Jesus into our image. He is beginning to look a lot like us because, after all, that is whom we are most comfortable with. And the danger now is that when we gather in our church building to sing and lift up our hands in worship, we may not actually be worshiping the Jesus of the Bible. Instead we may be worshiping ourselves"

David Platt

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Katholisch Leben!

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kathpedia.com: Gott

Fr. Barron and Dr. Scott Hahn discuss The God of the Old Testament

Maleachi 1,6

God the Father

God is Always Listening

Links National

Links International

Resources

Seek Me!

The Great Commandment

My King

The Great Commission

Machine Gun Preacher

Evangelikale Katholiken?

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Moralistic Therapeutic Deism