Foundations of Faith 1 - GOD IS LOVE

NOTES summarised from:

1. The Study: "Foundations of Faith : A Journey Through the Catechism of the Catholic Church" (Core message Video - Session 1)
2. Notes from "Overview of Catholic Theology", Rev Fr Michael Chan

GOD IS LOVE

God's very being is love
His whole inner life is all about love
For love to exist
there must be a lover
a beloved 
and a shared love between them

GOD AS THE HOLY TRINITY

God the Father 
giving himself 
in love to the Son

And the Beloved Son
pouring himself in love
to the Father

And that outpouring of love
between the Father & the Son
is the Holy Spirit.

God himself is an external exchange of love
Father Son and Holy Spirit
and he has destined us to share in that exchange.

GOD FREELY CREATED MAN

in a plan of sheer goodness

to make him share

in his own blessed life

GOD DRAWS CLOSE TO MAN

He calls man
to seek him
to know him

to love him

GOD SENT HIS SON

as Redeemer and Saviour.

In his Son and through him.

GOD INVITES MAN

He invites man to become
his adopted children

and heirs of his blessed life

to share in his love

and be transformed.

GOD CAME TO FILL US

with his divine life

He sends his Spirit 

into our hearts

so that we can be transformed

and begin to love

not just with our weak human love

but with the perfect, total, self-giving love

of God himself.

Christianity is not an intellectual system,

a collection of dogmas,

or a moralism.

Christianity is an encounter, 

a love story;

it is an event.

Pope Benedict XVI

 Ref:  CCC 1, 13, 221, 1721

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