Holiness and catholicity of the Church

(Just to let you know I was so lazy to translate this article to english, so I used Google Transalator. If you don`t like it, read the article in czech. Its the one previous. )

... Just as the issue seems to us the holiness and catholicity of the Church. Lord's seamless robe is torn between squabbling parties, one church is divided into many churches, each of which have more or less intensity claiming that it has in all truth. Now the church for many, a major obstacle to faith. They can see it just human struggling for power and petty Theater of those who by arguing that they manage the official Christianity is most apparent in the way of the true spirit of Christianity.

There is a theory that the ideas she could refute our common sense, like the contrast of these ideas are not based solely on reason but also the bitterness of heart, which may have been disappointed in its lofty expectations, which in their hurt and wounded love, just feel that his hope is destroyed. How then to respond? Finally, religion can only say, why we have this faith, the Church still unable to love, why dare by his disfigured face still recognize the face of Holy Church. Let's start nevertheless factually. The word "holy", as we have seen earlier, not all of those statements meant to the sanctity of human persons, but refers to God's gift, which gives the middle of the sanctity of human unholiness. "Holy" is the symbol of the church is not called because the members were in one another and bezhříšnými holy people - the dream of emerging anew in every century, not in the conservative world of our text instead, though ONU expressed desire of man that he could never leave until his new heavens and new earth nedarují what he never be the earthly time. Already here we can say that the harshest critics of the Church of our time also has been secretly living this dream, and because it is disappointed with the loud noise of the house shut the door and say that lying is a whole house. But let's return back: Holiness Church is the sanctification of that power which it has God in spite of human sinfulness. We come here on their own distinguishing sign of the new Treaty ": In Christ, God is bound in human beings, he began to tie them. The new contract was not based on mutual respect for the agreement, but is gifted by God as grace, which persists despite the transgressions of man. Is an expression of God's love that can not overcome the inability of man, but always he is in favor again and yet again, it just accepts the sinner, turn to him and sanctify him and loved him.

On the basis of an irrevocable donation of the Lord himself is the Lord continually sanctify the Church, just as it makes present the Lord's holiness among men. Yes, it's really the sanctity of the Lord, which makes present here and who time and again in his paradoxical love for the elect vessel of its presence stained hands of people. It is a holiness that radiates in the middle of the Church as a sin, the holiness of Christ. The paradoxical appearance of the church - in which the divine and often presents nehodnýma hands and makes present is always in the form of "despite" - is the sign for believers of that "despite the" increasing God's love. This blending of God's love, concern and transgression of man, which notes the structure of the Church is like a dramatic form of grace, through which in the history vividly makes present the reality of grace as a constant omilostňování those who deserve it yourself. We could therefore directly say that it was his paradoxical structure, consisting of holiness and unholiness, the Church is by grace in this world.

<Jan Dadak><
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