The Trinitarian God created us in His own image and likeness. He desires to make himself known and to share His life with us (CCC 257, 260) so we may share in his truth, beauty and goodness (CCC 41, 319). Being in the image of God, man is capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with other persons (CCC 357) - in other words, of imitating the Trinity's life-giving love. This is our ultimate calling: to become capable of loving as God loves us, and to imitate the life-giving love which is the very nature of God, who is an eternal exchange of love within Himself. Our participation in God’s trinitarian life is made possible especially in the Church's liturgy and sacraments, whereby we partake of God's life of grace. The sacraments are efficacious signs of grace by which God's divine, trinitarian life is dispensed to us (CCC 1131). Catechism of The Catholic Church.

Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperat illi Deus; supplices deprecamur: tuque, Princeps militiae coelestis, Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, divina virtute in infernum detrude. Amen

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Conversation • Dialogue Between Christ and A Muslim

An interesting post by Robert Reilly in the form of a dialogue between Christ and a muslim can be found at The Catholic Thing (TCT).

Equally interesting comments are beginning to pile up in the comment box at TCT.

Dialogue between Christ and a muslim.
Click HERE for the full post.
Scene: Before the heavenly Throne.
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Muslim: “We abandoned reason and submitted ourselves to the text of the Qur’an.” 
Christ: “In doing that, you abandoned me, for I am Logos. I am Reason. That is why my pope, Benedict XVI, proclaimed that, ‘not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature.’ This is why so many of you have behaved unreasonably, and why you could not find Me.” 
Muslim: “Since we do not believe any of these things, how did I get here then?” 
Christ: “You got here by the merits of the very things you deny, my Sonship and my sacrifice, because you had no chance to accept them. You knew nothing but Islam. And yet you lived a good and decent life by the lights you were given. I love you none the less for that. I died for you, too.”
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Readers might also be interested in one of Dr. Peter Kreeft's books that is constructed using a similar approach:


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  1. Simply one of the best things that I have read in many years. Thank you so much for linking to it CS.

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