1010. Because of Christ, Christian death has a positive meaning: “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”574 “The saying is sure: if we have died with him, we will also live with him.575 What is essentially new about Christian death is this: through Baptism, the Christian has already “died with Christ” sacramentally, in order to live a new life; and if we die in Christ’s grace, physical death completes this “dying with Christ” and so completes our incorporation into him in his redeeming act:
It is better for me to die in (eis) Christ Jesus than to reign over the ends of the earth. Him it is I seek – who died for us. Him it is I desire – who rose for us. I am on the point of giving birth …. Let me receive pure light; when I shall have arrived there, then shall I be a man.576
Aprofunde seus conhecimentos
38. With what name does God reveal Himself?
112. What is the importance of the Paschal Mystery of Jesus?
100. In what way is the spiritual motherhood of Mary universal?
349. What is the attitude of the Church toward those people who are divorced and then remarried?
126. What place does the Resurrection of Christ occupy in our faith?
55. What is divine providence?
151. In what way is the Church a mystery?
Acesse nossos estudos biblicos:
O que o livro de Cantares nos ensina sobre a beleza da mulher noiva e da mulher madura?
What was the story of King Amon’s violent death and rebellion in 2 Kings 21-22?
What does Daniel’s dream about the four wild beasts in Daniel 7 mean?
Jacob’s Wrestle with God: What is the significance of this story for us today?
What is the relationship between truth and joy mentioned in 2 John 1:4?
