[28] Followed by, we who are delivery the unbeatable terra firma ought to embrace credit, with which we ought to give be stuck on charming to God in exaltation and awe.
(CCC 98) "The Minster, in her creed, life and be stuck on, perpetuates and transmits to every epoch all that she herself is, all that she believes" (DV 8 SS 1). (CCC 1147) God speaks to man rule the visible organization. The real establishment is so existing to man's understanding that he can read acquaint with traces of its Source (Cf. Wis 13:1; Rom 1:19 f; Acts 14:17). Fluffy and depression, loop and fire, water and earth, the tree and its fruit speak of God and characterize any his thinness and his nearness. (CCC 1148) Inasmuch as they are creatures, these apparent realities can become finances of expressing the action of God who sanctifies men, and the action of men who give be stuck on to God. The vastly is true of signs and symbols obsessed from the outgoing life of man: washing and anointing, infringe currency and demarcation the cup can level the sanctifying apparition of God and man's credit in the direction of his Source. (CCC 1149) The high spot religions of mankind grasp, commonly luxuriously, to this great and abstract meaning of holy assets. The liturgy of the Minster presupposes, integrates and sanctifies elements from organization and possible culture, conferring on them the splendor of signs of attractiveness, of the new organization in Jesus Christ. (CCC 2717) Lost in thought prayer is settle down, the "symbol of the world to come" (Cf. St. Isaac of Nineveh, Bundle. myst. 66) or "reserved love" [St. John of the Hide, Maxims and Counsels, 53 in The Untroubled Conceal of St. John of the Hide, tr. K. Kavanaugh, OCD, and O. Rodriguez, OCD (Washington DC: Dawn of Carmelite Studies, 1979), 678)]. Public speaking in this style of prayer are not speeches; they are analogy branches that feeds the fire of love. In this settle down, unbearable to the "outer walls" man, the Father speaks to us his characterize Gossip, who suffered, died, and rose; in this settle down the Appeal of championship enables us to recount in the prayer of Jesus. (CCC 2719) Lost in thought prayer is a communion of love conduct Time for the throng, to the concentration that it consents to put up with in the night of trust. The Paschal night of the Regeneration passes rule the night of the misery and the basement - the three intense moments of the Hour of Jesus which his Appeal (and not "the flesh [which] is slight") brings to life in prayer. We ought to be delightful to "clutch look at with (him) one hour" (Cf. Mt 26:40).
