Why We Keep the Sabbath Holy
All people, in order to be saved, must
attach themselves in some way to the divine liturgy of redemption...
Christian worship is the cause of the very presence of
Christ in the world, who acts in his members in order to perpetuate this
worship... At the same time that it perpetuates the visitation of the suffering
Christ, the Christian cult announces the Parousia of the glorified Christ. It
is full of memories, but these memories are promises. If it commemorates the
past, it is in order to hasten the future...
All people, in order to be saved, must attach themselves
in some way to the divine liturgy of redemption...
In the pagan world we see the notion of consecration
gradually being substituted for the notion of moral sanctity, and even claiming
to supplant it...
The traditional doctrine, found both in the Orthodox
Churches and in Catholicism, recognises that the order of moral sanctity and
that of consecration for worship are both, though for different reasons,
essential to Christianity, which, far from setting them against each other,
reconciles divinely in itself the notions of worship and morality, validity and
grace, consecration and sanctity.
CARDINAL CHARLES JOURNET
Cardinal Charles Journet (d. 1975) was a Swiss theologian
who was influential at the Second Vatican Council.
who was influential at the Second Vatican Council.