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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Paul VI
DESCRIPTION:ONE MUST KNOW HUMANITY \nIN ORDER TO KNOW GOD \nFrom a homily by St Pope Paul VI4 \n◊◊◊ \nGod is! God truly exists. He lives\, a personal\, provident God\, possessed of \nan infinite goodness. And indeed\, he is good\, not only in himself\, but most \nespecially also toward us. He is our creator\, our truth\, our happiness. Therefore\, \nwhen one strives\, as a human being\, to fix one’s mind and heart on God with \nthe self-emptying that leads to contemplation\, one engages in an activity of the \nsoul that can be considered the noblest and most perfect of all; it is an activity\, \nwe would say\, that countless fields of human endeavor in our day could and \nshould pursue to the highest level… \nHuman beings continually lament their lot. In the past and even now they \njudge others inferior to themselves\, and therefore\, can be continuously \noverbearing and secretive\, greedy\, and aggressive. Unhappy with themselves\, \nthey either laugh or weep… They are a worthy object of religious reflection on \naccount of the innocence of their infancy\, the mystery of their need\, and the \ntender love that their sorrows incite; initially they think only of themselves\, and \nonly later care for society at large. They praise times past and at the same time \nlong for what is to come\, dreaming that it will be happier than what went before; \non the one hand they can be guilty of terrible crimes and on the other show signs \nof a holy life. And so it goes on… \n  \nThe religion that is the worship of God who desired to become man\, and \na religion which is the worship of ‘man’ who wishes to become like God\, are \ncontinually in conflict with each other… \nSince this is how things are\, it is true to say that the Catholic religion and \nhuman life are united in a friendly alliance\, and that each works together with \nthe other for the common human good. The Catholic religion is on the side of \nthe human race\, and it is\, in a certain way\, the life of the human race. Indeed\, it \nshould be called ‘the life’ because of the sublime doctrine\, perfect from every \npoint of view\, which it gives us about humanity; it hands on this doctrine \nreliably because it has its knowledge from God. For in order for us deeply to \nknow humanity\, true humanity\, integral humanity\, it is necessary that we first \nknow God himself… \nLet us remember that the face of Christ\, the Son of Man\, is to be seen in \nevery human face\, especially one marked with tears and sorrows; and when we \nrecognize the face of the heavenly Father in the face of Christ\,—as he says\, \n“Whoever sees me\, sees the Father\,”—then our way of appraising human \nconcerns is transformed into Christianity\, which is completely centered on God. \nTherefore\, we can only describe things in this way: namely\, that in order that \nGod be known it is necessary to know the human person. Let us then strive to \nattain a love for the human person\, not as a means to an end\, but rather as a \nprimary end point\, by way of which we come to our final end which transcends \nall human realities. \n4 From the Homilies of Saint Paul VI\, Pope (At the last public session of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council\, December 7\, \n1965: AAS 58 [1966]\, 53\, 55-56\, 58-59)9 \n  \n 
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