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Co-Workers of the Truth 5/28
Posted By reynor | Filed Under Co-Workers of the Truth, Pope Benedict XVI
The act of faith is a deeply personal act, anchored in the innermost depths of the human I. But precisely because it is so personal, it is also an act of communication. In the depths of its being, the I is always related to the thou and vice versa: that true relationship that becomes “communion” can be born only in the deep places of the human I. The act of faith is a participation in the seeing of Jesus, a dependence on Jesus. John, who reclined next to Jesus at the Last Supper, is a symbol of what faith actually means. Faith is communion with Jesus and, consequently, a liberation from the repression that is opposed to truth, a liberation of my I from its preoccupation with self, a liberation that sets me free to respond to the Father, to speak the Yes of Love; that sets me free to say Yes to being, free for that Yes that is our salvation and that overcomes the “world”. If follows, then, that faith is, in its innermost essence, a “being with”, a breaking out of the isolation that is the malady of my I. The act of faith is an opening of oneself to the whole world, a breaking open of the door of my subjectivity, which Paul described in the words: “It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me” (Gal 2:20). The I that has been redeemed finds itself again in a greater new I. In this new I, fow which faith has liberated me, I find myself united not only with Jesus, but with all who travel the same road. In other words, faith is necessarily ecclesial faith. It lives and moves in the we of the Church, one with the universal I of Jesus Christ. In this new person, the wall between me and other has fallen, the wall between me and the depth of being. In this new person, I am contemporary of Jesus and all the experiences of the Church belong also to me, have become my own.
From Auf Christus schauen, pp. 39-40
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